COUNCIL FOR 1841. 
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to appoint a meeting in Yorkshire for 1843, and to make 
choice of the City of York for the place of assembly, has been 
adopted by the Council, and will be brought regularly before 
it at the close of this address ; and the Council have already 
taken steps to* ascertain what degree of cooperation for the 
attainment of this object may be expected from the other 
Philosophical Institutions of the County. It ought by no 
means to be the desire of the Society that the Association 
should be welcomed to York with unnecessary parade or lavish 
expenditure, but the members will naturally demand for this 
national scientific assembly such preparations as its scientific 
objects require. 
They will also inquire whether the state of our Museum, 
and the general conduct of our establishment, are such as to 
fit them for a second inspection by such a body of Naturalists 
and Philosophers, and, if any deficiencies are observed in any 
department, what are the measures proposed by the Council 
to remedy them. 
By the attention of the Curators the Museum is placed in 
a condition to deserve more than a cursory examination ; it 
is rich in the treasures of nature and the monuments of art; 
but it still labours under deficiency of means for proper dis¬ 
play and orderly arrangement of the valuable donations which 
continue to be received from near and distant friends. The 
duties connected with the classification and conservation of 
the numerous specimens of Natural History and Antiquities 
have been performed, in many respects, to the satisfaction of 
the Society ; and if some part of these collections remains 
in an incomplete or unarranged state, this is not owing to any 
remissness of the several gentlemen to whose care they are 
entrusted, but to the actual want of space for suitable dis¬ 
tribution of the objects. 
The collection of Organic Remains has been entirely re- 
