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he would have presented to the Association. The collection 

 of specimens, which is extensive and valuable, has been by his 

 Executor liberally presented to the Museum. A catalogue of 

 the Birds of Yorkshire, more complete than any which natu- 

 ralists possessed, was contributed by Mr. Allis, and the com- 

 pilation of a list of the Yorkshire Fishes was entrusted to Mr. 

 Meynell. Mr. Moore and Mr. Baines supplied a catalogue of 

 the Plants of the county, supplemental to the excellent Flora 

 printed by the latter in 1840. These researches into the 

 Natural History of Yorkshire, it is hoped, will be further 

 prosecuted ; and, together with the collections of Meteorolo- 

 gical Observations due to the industry of the Curator of that 

 department, may hereafter constitute a publication which will 

 go far to realize the expectations held out in the original 

 prospectus of the designs of the Society. Two of the mem- 

 bers of the Local Committee who, though residing at a dis- 

 tance from York, assisted assiduously in all the preparations 

 for the meeting, contributed also to the same scientific object ; 

 Mr. West by furnishing a chemical analysis of the Mineral 

 Waters, and Mr. Lucas of the Limestones of Yorkshire. 



Another measure, preparatory to the Meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation, but essentially serviceable to the objects of this So- 

 ciety, consisted in a general revision of the arrangements of 

 the Museum, and of the various collections which it comprises. 



When the Council came to consider the uses to which it was 

 most material to apply the munificent legacy lately bequeathed 

 to the Society, they had no difficulty in determining that the 

 object of the greatest importance to the scientific character 

 of the Institution was to attach to it an officer who might 

 not only be qualified by a competent knowledge of the va- 

 rious branches of Natural History to take the collections 

 under his charge, but might also be endowed with zeal 

 and ability to improve them, and render them subservient 

 to the promotion of science. Such an officer the Society 

 formerly possessed in Professor Phillips, and such an of- 



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