REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSRiKE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February .2nd, 1892. 
The Council in presenting their Report for the year 1891 
will follow the usual course in first drawing attention to the 
Balance Sheet of the Society setting forth the finances of the 
past year and vAll then deal with the various scientific depart¬ 
ments. 
The income of the Society for the past year has amounted 
from all sources to £1171 16s. 2d., and the Expenditure to 
£1219 5s. Id., leaving an excess of Expenditure over Income 
of the sum of £47 8s. Id., hut as in the last year’s Balance 
Sheet £30 17s. (5d. was in the hands of the Treasurer, the 
total sum due to him on the Balance Sheet for the present 
year is £16 17s. 5d.> 
The Balance Sheet will he read after the Report by the 
Treasurer and the particulars stated in detail. 
The Council have to thank Dr. Tempest Anderson for his 
kind donation of £27 to the funds of the Society in discharge 
of the cost of providing a new service main for the supply of 
gas to the Museum, the old mains being totally insufficient to 
afford adequate light on occasions when the Museum was open 
to the Subscribers in the evening. 
An'itquities. —The Department of Antiquities has received 
during the past year something more than an average number 
of additions. In Roman remains collected from one site, 
and in Mediaeval Pottery, the Society now possesses the largest 
collections in England. In Prehistoric, Anglian, and Danish 
Antiquities it has a considerable number of specimens. Mediaeval 
remains are largely represented; the sculptured stones are 
finer than any that can be seen in other Museums, but in the 
smaller objects of that period our Collection is defective. 
Taken as a whole the Antiquarian Museum is a remarkably 
