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THE COUNCIL. 
Subscribers to the Building Fund, and a part still remain 
to be disposed of. 
In passing from this report of the Society’s scientific 
proceedings and acquisitions, to its pecuniary accounts, it 
is to be observed, in the first place, that the expectations not 
only of convenience but of advantage from the new lecture 
room have been thus far realized, even though it was opened 
in an unfinished state. After the usual salary of the lecturer 
and the incidental expenses were paid, there remained to 
the Society a profit of Fifteen Pounds : and, doubtless, if 
accuracy of knowledge, if ardor for the sciences which he 
teaches, and a happy talent for explaining them—if these 
qualifications can ensure success to a lecturer, the lectures 
of the Keeper of the Museum may always be expected to be 
successful. It is not proposed, however, in future to look to 
any profit to the Society from this source. Mr. Phillips will 
deliver some lectures during the summer, on the economy 
of the animal kingdom; but the Council are desirous ot 
assigning to himself the whole of whatever emolument may be 
derived from the course. The Curator of Botany has also 
offered to favor the Society with a course of lectures on that 
science, the produce of which will be appropriated to the 
Garden Fund . 1 
1 The lamented death of Mr. E. S. George has deprived the Society of the 
lectures announced in the last Report as designed for the benefit of the Laboratory. 
Mr. George was an honorary member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 
and honorary Curator of the Institution at Leeds. In him these societies have 
prematurely lost an associate, not more distinguished for scientific acquirements 
than for zeal in diffusing science, and for the modest, liberal, and benignant 
spirit of a true philosopher. 
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