REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February 4th, 1896. 
The Council, in presenting their present report, are again 
able to congratulate the members on the prospects of the 
Society and of the various departments of science under the 
care of the respective curators. In a report of a Society 
recurring every year a considerable amount of sameness must 
always exist in the manner of its preparation; but each year 
brings with it new facts, and old members pass away and 
are succeeded by others. The various additions to the 
collections afford pleasing evidences of the kind interest 
continued to be taken in the welfare of the Society by our 
friends and members, which will be fully mentioned in 
the report. The report will follow the usual course. 
The finances of the Society will be first briefly referred to and 
the Treasurer’s Balance Sheet appended to the report as 
audited will supplv all particular information respecting income 
and outgoings. 
The income of the Society from all sources amounts to 
£1,215 9s. 7d , and the total outgoings are £1165 9s. 5d., 
leaving a balance to the good of £50 Os. 2d., and this added 
to the balance in the Treasurer’s hands at the close of last year 
of £ 107 8s. 5d., shows a balance to the good in the Treasurer’s 
hands of £157 8s. 7d. 
The Reed Fund, which, it will be remembered, consists of 
an investment of £600 in the York Corporation Stock, kindly 
bequeathed by our late Vice-President, William Reed, Esq., 
has by accumulated interest and from other sources, been 
augmented to a capital sum of £657 6s. 1 Id. 
Abbey Walls.— It will be recollected that in April last 
a part of the old wall between the grounds of St. Mary’s 
Abbey and Bootham was temporarily exposed to view during 
