COUNCIL FOR 1847. 
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Newton, Esq.; both presented by the central Committee of the 
Institute. The Meteorological and Magnetical Observations of 
Lieut.-Col. Sabine at St. Helena, and of Sir T. M. Brisbane at 
Makerstoun, and the Astronomical Besults obtained at the Cape 
of Good Hope by Sir J. W. Herschel, and at Edinburgh by 
the late T. Henderson, Esq., have also been received. Mr. 
Hatfeild has presented to the Library a splendid Atlas of Plates 
on Human Anatomy, published at Venice, by the brothers Cal- 
dani, in 1801—13, in 4 vols, folio, with accompanying letter- 
press. Several works on Geology and Natural History, of great 
value and utility, (including Sir B. I. Murchison’s Silurian 
System,” Professor Owen’s Odontography,” and two costly 
and valuable works of M. Agassiz,) have been purchased by the 
Council, an opportunity having presented itself of obtaining 
them on very advantageous terms. 
The Council have great satisfaction in alluding to the com¬ 
pletion of Mr. Browne’s valuable and beautiful work on York 
Minster. The approaching completion of Mr. Gould’s splendid 
work on the Birds of Australia, as well as Mr. Gray’s on the 
Genera of Birds, will relieve the Society from a heavy annual 
expenditure in this department. 
The Laboratory has been exclusively employed, as of late 
years, in the instruction of the pupils of the York School of 
Medicine. It is reported by the Curator to be in good working 
order. In the Observatory, Mr. Newman has continued his 
observations of the sun’s transit for the purpose of keeping the 
correct time, and the clock’s error has been, as usual, carefully 
noted for the information of the public. 
The Curator of Meteorology has furnished the following table 
and remarks, containing his observations on the weather at 
York during the past year: — 
