YORK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY’S MUSEUM. 
Proposed New Lecture Theatre. 
The Theatre of the Museum has for several years been 
a subject of grave concern to the Council of the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society. Though larger than most of the 
theatres belonging to the principal London Societies, it is 
often inconveniently overcrowded. This state of things t’s now 
in a fair way of being remedied. The President of the Society, 
Dr. Tempest Anderson, has decided to apply to the building 
of a new theatre a sum of money left to him bv his sister, 
the late Mrs. Percv Sladen, to be used for some scientific 
purpose. 
'Phe well of the present theatre will be floored over, 
and this hall will thus become available as a reception-room 
for use before or after the lectures, and also for smaller 
meetings. The space behind the pillars will also be available 
for show cases, and it is hoped that some local collections 
in the county may eventually find their home there. 
The new theatre will be built at the west side of the 
present building, space being reserved in front of it for a 
further enlargement of the Museum ; it being undesirable to 
extend further in the direction of the Abbey. In deciding 
to build the new theatre on the west, in preference to the 
east side, the Council were much influenced bv the facility 
thereby provided of utilising the basement as a covering for 
the ruins of the vestibule of the Abbey Chapter House, which 
have suffered much from exposure to the weather. These 
ruins are considerably below the proposed floor level of the 
theatre, consequently the basement can be well lighted and 
ventilated, and it will provide an admirable hall for the 
display of the whole of the mediaeval stone remains which 
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