COUNCIL FOR 1898. 
IX 
It will be gratifying to the members of this Society to learn 
that the Museum premises have on several occasions been used 
by other associations working for the advancement of know¬ 
ledge. The York Medical Society has on two occasions held 
well-attended meetings in our lecture theatre ; the York Uni¬ 
versity Extension Society has given four courses of lectures 
here, and the York and District Field Naturalists’ Club con¬ 
tinues to hold its monthly meetings and to lodge its library 
and collections in this Museum. 
The great and pressing need of this Society is for more 
workers. Wide as is the range of subjects the study of which 
this society was founded to encourage, the number of observers 
and investigators is less than could be desired. An observa¬ 
tory which is rarely used and collections which are very seldom 
made the subject of systematic study reproach us as monu¬ 
ments of wasted opportunity. It is essential that specimens 
should be collected and conserved, but their collection and 
conservation must not be looked upon as constituting the 
whole duty of a Philosophical Society. 
Of our losses by death we shall only here refer to Sir Joseph 
Terry, Canon Machell and Mr. T. P. Bulmer. Sir Joseph 
Terry was for 20 years a member. During that time he 
twice served on the Council, and was at all times ready to 
render assistance in any unusual work undertaken by this 
Society. Canon Machell had been a member since his arrival 
in York (1891), and always took a great interest in the work 
of the Society. He obtained for our Hon. Curator of Botany 
(Mr. H. J. Wilkinson) information which greatly helped him in 
his task of writing the history of our Herbarium and its founders. 
Mr. T. P. Bulmer was a member of this Society for over 30 
years, and during that time frequently attended our meetings, 
and took an active interest in the Society’s progress. 
The Society has lost also by death one of its oldest and 
most distinguished honorary members, Professor George James 
Allman, who died on November 24th at the age of 86. Professor 
Allman was a man of extraordinary versatility, and his work 
covered a wide range and included researches in Physiology, 
Palceontology, and the processes of Fermentation. But he was 
essentially a Zoologist, and his attention was mainly directed 
to researches on the Ccelenterata and the Polyzoa. His monu¬ 
mental work on the Tubularian Hydroids will always remain 
