R E r o n T 
OF 
THE COUNCIL, 
Ix presenting the Report of the proceedings of the York¬ 
shire Philosophical Society in 1834, the Council are happy to 
assure the Annual Meeting that the hopes and expectations of 
former years have been in a considerable degree realized in 
the last;—the accommodations in the Museum have been 
greatly augmented; the collections have been enlarged and 
enriched; the extraordinary expenses of the Institution may 
be considered as terminated, and the Society in consequence 
is advanced to a point from which its friends may look back 
with satisfaction on the progress it has made, and forward 
with confidence to a steady career of usefulness. 
Wholly dependent on the public favour for the means 
of erecting a spacious building on a beautiful site, and of 
maintaining a suitable scientific establishment, it is highly 
gratifying to find proof of the continued attachment of its 
many friends, in the still unexhausted supply of new Dona¬ 
tions to various departments of the Museum and Library, 
and to know that the time is arrived when they may be 
more than ever turned to the advantage of the general 
student, and to the special illustration of the Natural History 
and Antiquities of Yorkshire. 
The well-stored Museum of Organic Remains has been 
made more complete by the addition of a series of specimens 
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