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Nine new ordinary Members have been 

 elected during the year, and three honorary ones, 

 amongst whom the Council have pleasure in 

 announcing the name of Monsieur ChampoUion le 

 Jeune, of Paris, who had previously signified to the 

 Secretaries his willingness to accept it, and of Luke 

 Howard, Esq., F.R.S. 



The Council cannot conclude their annual 

 Report better than by repeating the caution of their 

 predecessors, that it is only by the individual exer- 

 tions of its MemT)ers, that the Leeds Philosophical 

 and Literary Society can be preserved in the res- 

 pectable rank and station to which it has already 

 attained. It is true, that by its constitution it pre- 

 sents few facilities for the attainment of the 

 elements of Literary and Scientific Knowledge, 

 yet it may not be altogether useless to remark, that 

 in these, and these alone, however uninviting 

 they may seem to be, are contained the germs of 

 those fair flowers and sweet fruits, the contribution 

 of which this Society asks of its Members, Let, 

 then, each in the spirit of patience and persever- 

 ence, by which alone the higher attainments in 

 Science and Literature can be mastered, vigorously 

 set himself to those pursuits to which his taste or 

 his circumstances may have directed him, in order 

 to lay before the Society the result of his researches ; 



