REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCETY, 
Feb. 2 , 1858 . 
The Keport for the year 1857, which the Council now 
present to the Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 
will show that during t^ie past year, the objects for the 
jiromotion of which the Society was instituted have been 
steadily pursued. Additions of great permanent value and 
extent have been made to its Collections, and the number of its 
Members has been considerably increased. 
At the Monthly Meeting in April last, Mr. Allis, the 
Curator of Comparative Anatomy, called the attention of the 
members to the recent discovery of a very remarkable specimen 
of the Ichthyosaurus Platyodon in the lias of Whitby, and 
urged that it should not be allowed to go out of the County of 
York, or pass into any private collection, hut he secured for the 
Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. This sugges¬ 
tion having been enforced by Professor Phillips, a subscription 
was begun for its purchase; hut its prosecution was rendered 
unnecessary by the liberality of the Rev. Danson Richardson 
Roundell, who presented the Society with £110, the price 
ultimately fixed by the discoverers. The Keeper of the 
Museum, Mr. Charlesworth, who had exerted himself greatly 
in procuring this specimen for the Society, and had taken on 
