COUNCIL TOR 1849. 
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COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF WINDS. 
N. S. E. W. N.E. N.W. S.E. S.W. 
28 51 18 62 58 48 54 46 = 365. 
The temperature of the year 1849, (47 o, 05,) was nearly a mean 
of 18 years, being ^ of a degree below that amount. The mean 
height of the mercurial column was 29 894 inches, being also 
nearly the mean for York. On the 11th of February the 
mercury attained the unusual height of 30 - 829 corrected for 
temperature and for capillary attraction. 
The rain of the year, 23’63 inches, is almost exactly an 
average quantity. 
The following accounts of the amount of rain fallen in the 
year have been received: viz.. 
SGttlG . a . . . . 
36-88 
Ackworth .. 
23-33 
Middleton, near Beverley .. 
29-61 
Huggate 
29-77 
Leeds 
24-419 
Various interesting papers have been read at the usual 
Monthly Meetings of the Society during the past year, some of 
which, relating to the Natural History and Antiquities of 
Yorkshire, may hereafter appear in the Proceedings of the 
Society. 
The money received at the Gate during the year 1849 
amounts to £189. 11s. 2d., a sum less than in the previous year 
by £47. 11s. 9d. When, however, it is recollected, that in the 
return for 1848 is included the sum of £62. 9s. 6d. paid by 
visitors during the exhibition in York of the Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Society, and that during the past year, the almost total 
absence of railway excursion trains, and some other unfa¬ 
vourable circumstances, have combined to lessen this source 
of the Society’s income, the Council cannot hut feel convinced 
that the new regulations adopted respecting the admission of 
strangers at the beginning of 1849 have been attended with 
success. 
The Swimming Baths have not been quite so productive during 
the past year, as usual, hut after deducting all expenses, (includ¬ 
ing several which are not of annual occurrence,) the net profit of 
