COUNCIL FOR 1841. 
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The alterations required for the most immediately pressing 
of all these wants, the appropriation of larger space for the 
collection of antiquities, are fortunately inexpensive, and 
may be entered upon without hesitation; but before this 
meeting can be called upon to consider the propriety of 
authorizing the expenditure of any considerable sum for other 
objects, it is necessary to advert to the state of the Society’s 
finances. 
On the 31st December, 1840, the Society was indebted for 
money borrowed to purchase land and houses, and for the 
several objects of the Institution, the sum of ^5401. Is. lid., 
of which £ 1551 . Is. lid. was a floating balance borrowed of 
the bank at 5 per cent., the remainder being at 4 per cent. 
The floating balance now due to the bank is <£^1321. 11s. 8d, 
The sum of df’63. 14s. 6d. has been received for admission 
tickets ; but this sum, though larger than the payments in any 
previous year, afibrds but a very inadequate estimate of the 
total number of strangers who have visited the Museum. 
The executors of the late Eustachius Strickland, Esq. have 
paid to the Society’s account the legacy bequeathed to it by 
that early and lamented friend of our Institution. This ge¬ 
nerous gift is unconditional; but the Council presume that 
the meeting will follow out the recommendation contained in 
the last Report, and authorize them to appropriate this money 
to some object which would have been approved by the donor, 
and which may long preserve the memory of his taste and 
generosity. 
The Council have had to regret that the Curator of An¬ 
tiquities was prevented by illness from performing his intention 
of favouring the Society with a second series of his admirable 
discourses on the Antiquities of Yorkshire, embracing the 
