REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February, 1918. 
y^URING the past year, in addition to the ordinary routine 
work, your Council has endeavoured to bear its part as 
a patriotic Societ}-. In the first month, on the occasion of a 
Lantern Exhibition of York Pageant Pictures to wounded 
soldiers in our Lecture Theatre, our guests were entertained 
to tea, and several Concerts for War Charities have been given 
in the Tempest Anderson Hall with ver} successful financial 
results. The privilege of free admission to our Gardens and 
Museum to all sailors and soldiers in uniform has been taken 
full advantage of and hardly a day passes without soldiers, not 
only of home regiments but from all parts of the Dominions 
beyond the seas, spending some time in the Galleries and 
enjoying to the full the study of the antiquities and natural 
history specimens. 
In obedience to the orders for economy your Council has 
dispensed with the free teas before lectures, and has reduced 
the number of birds in the aviary. 
The list of foreign Institutions to which we have been 
accustomed to send our Annual Reports has been revised, and 
all those in Germany and Austria have been eliminated. 
One of the leading events in the past year has been the 
publication of the second series of Volcanic Studies by our late 
President, Dr. Tempest Anderson, with text and preface by 
