YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB, 5, 1839. 
The Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society are 
happy in assuring the Annual Meeting that the past year 
has been productive of circumstances very favourable to the 
enlargement of scientific tastes and popular gratification, 
among the members and friends of the Institution. The 
improvements of the Museum have been materially advanced; 
the Library and Antiquarian departments have received con¬ 
siderable additions ; the Garden is enriched with many new 
plants, and has been selected for the establishment of an 
exhibition of fruits and flowers under the best auspices and 
with the fullest success. 
Nor will the spirit of improvement be suffered to languish 
for want of new objects. Plans are in progress by which it is 
hoped some of the remaining fragments of our monastic 
edifices may not only be preserved from entire decay, but 
restored in a substantial form, for purposes of acknow¬ 
ledged utility. For the execution of these plans,—-for the 
continuation of certain regulations regarding the admission of 
visitors,—and for some useful modifications of particular laws, 
the sanction of this Annual Meeting will be asked, after the 
members shall have heard a faithful statement of the present 
condition of the Society’s affairs. 
