with a mere reference to the able document which 

 embodies them.* They conceive, however, that 



Extract ftoin the Minutes, of Council, Feb. 26, 1830. 

 • ** That the premature death of our valued friend ami associate, Edward 

 Sanderson George, Esq. F. L.S. Honorary Curator of our Museum, has ex- 

 cited in our breasts feelings of unfeigned and deep regret. That had wo 

 known Mr. Greorge in no other than his private character, we could not have 

 heard with indiJBerence of the mournful dispensation which has suddenly 

 removed from the social circle an individual so well fitted, by his talents and 

 virtues, to adorn it; — a young man, the fair promise of whose youth had 

 already ripened into performance, and in whom, all who knew him must 

 have recognised, with affection and esteem, the possessor of well cultivated 

 powers, virtuous principles, amiable dispositions, and pleasing address. That 

 while we cannot forego the present opportunity of expressing our sincere 

 respect for Mr. George's general character, we feel ourselves particularly 

 called upon, as Members of the Leeds Philosophical and Literarj' Society, to 

 place on record our high estimate of his intellectual attainments, and our 

 grateful recollection of the invaluable services which they enabled him to 

 confer on that Institution, in the support of which he was associated with 

 ourselves. That in reviewing the causes of the present prosperous state of 

 our Society, we desire never to forget our debt of gratitude to departed 

 friends and coadjutors, on the hst of whom we are now to register the name 

 of Mr. George, a pure and ardent lover of science, who assisted in the first 

 formation of our Society, and never ceased to exert himself actively and ably 

 in its behalf, punctually lending his valuable aid in the Council, employing 

 his scientific skill in the arrangement of the Museum, to which he contributed 

 at various times many important donations, and favouring the Society with 

 many interesting papers and lectures, in which useful knowledge was com- 

 municated with clearness, perspicuity, and manly simplicity of style, and with 

 unaffected modesty of manner. That while we are impressively reminded 

 by the death of Mr. George, so soon succeeding that of his excellent and 

 regretted predecessor Mr. Atkinson, of the mutability of every thing human, 

 we console ourselves with the cherished hope, that the labours of the wise 

 and good will not be in vain, nor their example without influence ; but that, 

 as they depart hence, others of like mind will step into their place, and the 

 good cause of knowledge and of virtue continue to advance, notwithstanding 

 the successive removals of its honoured and lamented supporters." 



