REPORT 
OF 
THE COUNCIL. 
The Council cannot lay before the Annual Meeting the 
Report of the proceedings and state of the Yorkshire Philoso¬ 
phical Society, during the past year, without reminding the 
Members that the Institution has now reached the end of the 
tenth year of its existence ; and offering their congratulations 
on the satisfactory and increasing success which, during that 
period, has marked its progress. Founded under very en¬ 
couraging auspices, and receiving from its commencement the 
prompt and liberal support of the friends and patrons of science, 
in almost every part of the county, and even beyond its ex¬ 
tended limits, the most confident expectations that it would 
eventually attain to eminence among the scientific institutions of 
Great Britain were, not unreasonably, formed and cherished. 
But the most sanguine of its earliest friends, who witnessed its 
origin in the union of three private collections from the ante¬ 
diluvian relics of Kirkdale Cave, could scarcely have imagined 
that, in the space of ten short years, there would be gathered 
around that small cabinet so great a multitude of rare, costly, 
and interesting specimens in almost every branch of Natural 
History, as that which now adorns the ample rooms of the 
Museum. The retrospect is highly gratifying, not only as 
furnishing undoubted evidence of the public approbation of 
the views contemplated by the Society, and of a growing 
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