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the President to Mrs. Hamilton in the following 

 resolution : — 



" The Council of the Philosophical and Literary Society cannot 

 suffer the recent melancholy event, which has deprived it of one 

 of its brightest ornaments, and the town of one of its most valued 

 citizens, to pass without recording their deep sense of the heavy loss 

 they have sustained in the death of the late Rev. R. W. Hamilton, D.D. 

 LL.D., and without conveying to the family of their departed friend 

 the expression of their sympathy with them at so afflicting a bereave- 

 ment. They beg to intimate to the family, that as many of the 

 Members of the Council as can attend hope to mark their respect for 

 the memory of the late Dr. Hamilton by joining the funeral procession 

 at the Cemetery. 



(Signed) "WILLIAM SINCLAIR, A.M., 



PRESIDENT." 



The Council have pleasure in informing the 

 Members that the Society has very recently become 

 possessed, through the liberality of John Wilkinson, 

 Esq., of Gledhow Mount, of a very characteristic 

 Lithographic Likeness of the late Dr. Hamilton. 



The Society have also to lament the loss of another 

 of its earliest Members, in the decease of Edward Baines, 

 Esq., who contributed to its first formation, by his able 

 editorial assistance, and zealous co-operation with other 

 gentlemen who were desirous of establishing a Philo- 

 sophical Society in Leeds, at a period when no similar 

 institution existed in this county. Although Mr. 

 Baines never filled any office in the Society, he was 

 always ready when his services or influence could be 

 beneficial to its interests, to afford his assistance. 



