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13. ** On Stained Glass, and Glass Stainers, from the 

 Invention of the Art to the present Time," by Francis 

 Thomas Billam, Esq. read May 5. 



14. " On the Principles of early Education, particularly 

 in reference to the Formation of Infant Schools," by Dr. 

 Williamson, read May 19. 



The paper which occupied the attention of your Society 

 at its last General Meeting, was provided in the place of 

 an Essay on the Meteorology of Leeds, and its vicinity, 

 of which it had been deprived by the sudden decease of an 

 excellent and distinguished Member — Mr. Luccock. 



The removal of one of the earliest and most efficient friends 

 of the Society, may justify your Council in adopting, on the 

 present occasion, the language of unfeigned condolence, 

 while they offer a passing tribute of respect to his memory. 

 By the death of Mr. Luccock, you have sustained a 

 serious loss. His active habits of mind, the numerous 

 opportunities of observation he had enjoyed, during his long 

 residence in one of those parts of the world comparatively 

 unexplored, where Nature exhibits herself in the most varied 

 and majestic forms, and his ardent love of scientific inquiry, 

 qualified him in an unusual degree to contribute to the 

 objects of your Institution. The great designs of this 

 and of similar institutions, — the diffusion of useful know- 

 ledge, arid the corresponding increase of human happiness, 

 obtained his peculiar approbation, and no one anticipated 

 with more sanguine emotions the ultimate triumphs of 

 science, and the important accessions to the arts, and 

 accommodations of social life, which would follow in 

 their train. To his industry and liberality you are 

 indebted for a Collection of American Fossils, deposited 

 in your Museum, remarkably interesting, by shewing 



