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This expense, though heavy, the Council feel assured will 
not be thought too great for the completion of, what they 
conceive to have been justly estimated as, a most desirable and 
effective improvement. 
The only other item of extraordinary expense the Council 
have to notice, is one of £128 17s. 2d. for cases required in 
fitting up the room in the Museum dedicated to “ The Rudstone 
Collection of British Birds ,” towards which the Society are 
indebted to William Rudston Read, Esq., for a very liberal 
contribution of 50 guineas, thus enhancing the value of his 
former munificent donation of the collection itself. 
Three associations of a scientific character, which have been 
formed in York during the past year, call for especial notice on 
the part of the Council, aiming, as they do, at co-operation 
with this Society, though wholly supported by independent 
funds. One of these, the “ Yorkshire Naturalists’ Club,” origin¬ 
ated in the wish to bring into more general communication 
with one another the working naturalists of the whole County 
of York. This Club holds periodical meetings for the exhibi¬ 
tion of specimens, and for the discussion of subjects relating to 
the Natural-History of the county, and the funds at the disposal 
of the Committee are in part applied to the purchase of 
desiderata for the different Museums of Yorkshire, that of York 
taking precedence as the County Museum. 
A second association has been established in York, under the 
denomination of the “ Yorkshire Antiquarian Club,” which 
binds itself by its first rule to have no private collection, but to 
deposit the specimens, given to or discovered by it, in the 
Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society; it being the 
principal object of the Club to make researches by opening 
barrows and other earth-works, and examining any of the 
remains of antiquity so abundantly spread over various parts of 
the County. 
The third, under the denomination of the i( British Natural- 
History Society,” though not confining its investigations to 
this County, still, from its having originated with The Keeper of 
this Society’s Museum, and from the benefits which it is likely 
to confer not only on the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, but on 
