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our Grounds, and saved from ruin some of the fairest archi- 

 tecture of which ancient York can boast ; and that sympathy 

 and confidence will never be withdrawn so long as we can 

 honestly demand them. 



Influenced by this conviction, the Society has continued 

 and even extended in the present year the facilities of access 

 to its Museum and Grounds ; these have been visited by a 

 greater ^than the usual number of strangers ; twice opened 

 for Horticultural Exhibitions, and twice for unreserved ad- 

 mission of thousands of gratified visitors. But the most im- 

 portant occasion when the usual Rules of Admission were 

 relaxed or suspended, was that of the assembling, in August, 

 of the Provincial Medical Association of England, to whose 

 use this edifice and its contents were freely yielded for the 

 days of their meeting in York. The collections of the So- 

 ciety then inspected at leisure drew forth expressions of high 

 approbation, and the friendly interest which the Society ma- 

 nifested in the success of the Medical Association was fully 

 appreciated and acknowledged by that distinguished body. 



In the same spirit, and encouraged by this success, the 

 Council would wish to welcome the Agricultural Association 

 of Yorkshire, which has appointed its meeting, for 184!2, to be 

 held in this City in the month of August. The lapse of 

 years has also brought within probability of fulfilment the 

 expectation and desire of this Society to receive a meeting of 

 that great British Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, which, beginning within these walls in 1831, has held 

 a prosperous and useful course through the large Cities and 

 Towns of the Empire, and may now be induced by suitable 

 invitations to re-assemble its numerous and distinguished 

 members in Yorkshire. 



A proposition that this meeting should authorize an invi- 

 tation, in the name of the Society, to the British Association 



