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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
valuable; and the Council, encouraged by the admission of many new members, 
had ventured to add a considerable number of specimens by purchase on favourable 
terms. The collection of quadrupeds now amounts to 120; of birds, 1,200; an 
entirely new arrangement of British insects has been begun; the valuable 
herbarium of the Society is in process of arrangement; a small stove is being 
constructed for the cultivation of tropical orchideous plants; the Roman and 
Monastic walls have been repaired; and a most interesting addition made to the 
antiquarian collections, in the cast of a Chaldean figure, sculptured on the rocks 
of Beyrout, in Syria. More than eight hundred volumes have been given to the 
library of the Society, by the late G. Hodgson, Esq., of Bridlington. The 
Council proposes, ere long, to select for publication such parts of the many valuable 
memoirs which have been read at the monthly meetings, as by their bearing on 
the antiquities and Natural History of Yorkshire, appear worthy of being placed 
in the hands of members, and offered to the public at a very moderate price. The 
expenditure of the year has been great, yet in consequence of the addition of no 
less than 22 new members during the year, and other favourable circumstances, 
there is a balance in favour of the Society, on the general account of the year, of 
£86, and though the Manor Shore property has been a source of expense, above 
the income derived from it, this cannot happen again. The Council has made 
arrangements to purchase Mr.JALLis’s beautiful collection of skeletons for the sum 
of £350, of which no less than £230 has been already received by voluntary 
subscription among the members, and the supply is not yet exhausted. It was 
stated that some additional cases were required to contain the zoological collection, 
and the meeting, after inspecting the treasurers accounts, and hearing the ex¬ 
planation of Professor Phillips, unanimously decided to authorize the Council 
of the ensuing year to construct cases for the object proposed, to the extent 
of £200. 
On the motion of the Rev. J. Graham, the report was unanimously adopted, 
and ordered to be printed. 
Three important propositions were considered by the meeting—first, a plan for 
the holding of horticultural exhibitions in the museum grounds, under the direction 
of the Council; secondly, a proposal to continue the regulation by which strangers 
are admitted to the museum grounds; thirdly, a proposal to authorize the Council 
to open the grounds and museum on certain days of the year freety to all persons 
whatsoever, without payment or requiring orders from members. All these 
propositions, after having been fully discussed, were, with some verbal amend¬ 
ments, adopted. Thus the facilities which the public already enjoy will be 
considerably augmented, and the success of the Society, we trust, will be 
promoted. 
The members then scrawled for the officers and Council for the ensuing year ; 
