Yorkshire Philosophical Society
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
James Atkinson (1759–1839) was an English surgeon and bibliographer.
James Atkinson, 1832 portrait by William Etty
Bridges (left) and Sterne (right), double portrait, engraving after an original preserved in the Atkinson family