The Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS) is a charitable learned society which aims to promote the public understanding of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the archaeology and history of York and Yorkshire.
The Lodge, Museum Gardens, York home of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's offices and reading room.
Title page of the 1835 Annual report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
Yorkshire Philosophical Society volunteers working in the historic library of the Yorkshire Museum in 2013
Frank Elgee
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Frank Watson Elgee was a published archaeologist, geologist and naturalist. He wrote several books on the North York Moors such as The Moorlands of North-Eastern Yorkshire (1912), The Romans in Cleveland (1923) and Early Man in North East Yorkshire (1930). In 1933 Leeds University conferred on him an Honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The North York Moors national park
Albert Park, Middlesbrough
Boundary Stone at Urra Moor
Dorman Museum