YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO THE 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 1st OF FEBRUARY, 184S. 
Few events of peculiar importance have occurred during the 
past year to require prominent notice in the report of the 
Council to the present Annual Meeting. 
The completion of the alterations connected with the enclo¬ 
sure of the remains of St. Leonard’s Hospital within the Society’s 
grounds and the entrance to the Gardens, has been again 
deferred, in consequence of the plans of the Corporation with 
regard to the improvements in the adjoining streets not being 
definitively fixed, so as to admit of the proper levels and boun¬ 
dary line being determined. 
In the Report presented to the last Annual Meeting, the 
Council intimated that it would be the duty of their successors 
to devise some plan for reviving the interest formerly taken by 
the members of the Society in its scientific proceedings. As this 
suggestion was favourably received by the Annual Meeting, the 
present Council determined on making a trial of certain changes 
regarding the Monthly Meetings. The hour at which they are 
fixed by the Society’s laws (One p. M.), appearing to be an in¬ 
convenient one for a numerous attendance of Members, it was 
resolved to try the experiment whether, by adjourning these 
Meetings to an evening hour, a fuller attendance could be 
obtained, by which means it was hoped that more encouragement 
