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11 On the Philosophy of Names— by the Rev. Robert 



Humphrey--(read April 6th, 1827.) 



12 On the Mechanical Effect of Rain, Rivers, and the 



Sea, and on the Materials which compose the Surface 

 of our Planet— communicated by Mr. John Phillips — 

 (read April 20th, 1827.; 



13 On Egyptian Mummies— by Mr. Wm. Osbum, Juh. 



—(read May 4th, 1827.) 



14 On the discovery of Crystals of Pyrites in some old 



Blocks of Wood, dug up at Whitby — communicated 

 by the Rev. George Young, A. M. of Whitby. 



15 On the Principles which should guide us in the Choice of 



our Intellectual Pursuits — by the Rev. J. Hutton, 

 LL. D— (read May 18th, 1827.) 



The subjects of all these papers were afterwards 

 discussed, often at considerable length. It gives 

 the Council pleasure to report that the hint of 

 their predecessors respecting this part of the 

 business of the Ordinary Meetings has been 

 punctually attended to. 



Having thus laid before the Society a plain, 

 unadorned statement of the proceedings of the 

 Session, the Report of the Council is necessarily at 

 an end. They have only to remark, in conclusion, 

 that if this Society be instituted for the purpose of 

 diffusing around it a taste for the pure, intellectual 



