COUNCIL FOR 1840 . 
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ciety will be in possession of all the means of arranging these 
interesting and useful exhibitions, with comparatively small 
expense except in the prizes, which may thus be made even 
more worthy of the gratifying competition already excited by 
these meetings. 
Such are the principal facts, from which and the Treasurer’s 
accounts appended, the members willl earn the state and pro¬ 
spects of the Institution. On a review of their proceedings, 
the Council see no reason to fear that the Annual Meeting 
will impute to them either neglect of their interests, or a need¬ 
less extravagance in performing their commands. It has not 
been in the power of the Council to appropriate any funds to 
the purchase of Books or specimens of Natural History : the 
extension of the Garden, the Reparation of the Hospitium, 
the repairs and new constructions in the Museum, have left 
only the means of securing some of the rich remains of 
Eburacum which have been excavated in our sight, and which 
but for this timely effort might have been wholly lost to the 
City which ought to feel a more than common interest in 
every fragment of the arts of its once imperial owners. 
If however the members shall now deem these spacious 
grounds sufficiently extended, and shall again turn their prin¬ 
cipal attention to that which should ever be the characteristic 
feature of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, the Museum 
of Natural History and Antiquities, and direct to this one 
channel the slender stream which is at our command, the 
blank spaces in our cabinets may be speedily filled, and these 
rooms become in every respect what they were intended to be, 
entirely worthy of the great patronage to which we owe the 
Edifice and the Grounds which belong to us, worthy of our 
own reputation, and the objects for which we were associated 
together. 
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