the fossils, in legible characters, the great revolutions which 

 the crust of the earth has undergone, — -where the antiquarian 

 may exercise his skill in elucidating the relics of past times, 

 which may here find a repository, — and where the student of 

 Natural History may learn to refer the diversified forms of 

 the animate and inanimate world to their appropriate place 

 in the scale of Creation, while he admires that Wisdom and 

 Benevolence which appear in their exquisite adaptation to 

 their respective uses. 



When your Society perceives, as it does with the greatest 

 satisfaction, the result of the indefatigable industry and 

 science of a zealous naturalist in the to^vn, which have pro- 

 duced a Collection lately opened to public inspection, equal in 

 extent and rarity to any in the North of England, their 

 expectations are greatly increased in reference to the ulti- 

 mate prosperity of your Museum. 



Your Council conceive that they express the real senti- 

 ments of the Society, which will require no apology 

 for the digression, when they offer this small tribute of 

 respect to their intelligent fellow-labourer, Mr. Calvert,t— 

 who, with no extraordinary resources but such as his own 

 talent and enterprize have supplied, by the unremitting 

 labours of his past life, has furnished a Museum, which is 

 an object of distinguished local attraction, and to all classes 

 a source of rational pleasure and information. 



Your Council will not occupy you long in reporting 

 the Philosophical and Literary Proceedings of the past 

 Session. A very able and interesting Course of Lectures 

 on Geology, and Organic Remains, was delivered at your 

 Hall in December and January, by Mr. John Phillips, 

 Honorary Member of the Leeds and of the Yorkshire Philo- 

 sophical Societies. The use of your Lecture Room wa« 



