8 
REPORT or THE 
He entered on his duties on the first of January in the pre¬ 
sent year. During the vacancy of the office of Keeper of 
the Museum, the Council appointed Mr. Charles Wakefield, 
Associate of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, to assist the 
Secretaries; an appointment which has proved satisfactory in 
its results. 
As both the arrangement and nomenclature of the geological 
collection were imperfect, it appeared desirable to the Council, 
especially with a view to the Meeting of the British Association 
at Leeds, in September last, that the whole of it should he 
carefully examined, and the specimens classified and named. 
Mr. Woodward of the British Museum undertook this work, 
in conjunction with Mr. Dallas, and spent three weeks in York 
for this purpose. On the completion of their task, they pre¬ 
sented a report to the Council, containing their remarks upon 
the condition of the Society’s geological collection, and import¬ 
ant suggestions for its increase and arrangement. To this 
report the Council will have occasion to refer again. 
The fitting up of the new rooms has proceeded more slowly 
than the Council anticipated, when they presented their last 
report. It was not easy to determine in what manner the 
magnificent saurian remains, for the reception of which chiefly 
the extension has been made, could be most effectually pre¬ 
served and displayed, whether by being placed horizontally on 
tables, or encased in the wall. The latter mode has been 
adopted, with one exception, in conformity with the practice of 
the British Museum. It was necessary also that the heating 
apparatus should first be fixed; and no extensive arrangement 
could he satisfactorily made in the absence of a Keeper of the 
Museum. These causes of delay no longer exist, and the 
Council will proceed immediately to complete the work, as 
far as the means at their disposal enable them. The Meeting 
of the British Association at Leeds procured for the Society the 
advantage of a visit from the President of the year. Professor 
Owen, who spent many hours in the examination and measure¬ 
ment of its saurian remains. This examination enabled him 
to ascertain that they are specifically different from those 
which the corresponding strata in the South of England have 
