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the County : and although only three members 

 of this Society had an opportunity of attending 

 the meeting at York, viz., the two Secretaries 

 and Mr. Davis, yet this Institution must feel, in 

 some degree, the exciting eflFect of that highly 

 interesting meeting. The discoveries in science, 

 and improvements in the arts, brought before the 

 different Sections, with the valuable communi- 

 cations made, on a rich variety of topics, must 

 needs give an increasing stimulus to scientific 

 and philosophical pursuits. Even the assembling 

 of so many individuals, eminent in literature and 

 science, of various ranks, classes, and nations, 

 several of them moving in the most exalted 

 spheres, and distinguished by their talents and 

 personal worth, cannot fail to excite an uncommon 

 interest, and to awaken not a few to engage in 

 those noble pursuits, which tend in no small 

 degree, to elevate our nature, enlarge and refine 

 our powers and feelings, and thus increase our 

 pleasures, and extend our usefulness. Limited 

 as our resources are, and secluded as the place 

 of our abode may seem, we have done something, 

 and may do much more, for advancing the grand 

 objects of such Associations : and the important 

 results attending the labours of the British Asso- 

 ciation, should stimulate every local Institution, 

 however contracted its sphere, to put forth all 

 its strength in the service of science, literature, 



