18 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1856. 



were derived from specimens in our Museum. The Council 

 may be allowed, at the same time, to remark with pride and 

 pleasure, that the talents of his distinguished successor in the 

 Readership of Geology, at Oxford — Professor Phillips — were 

 first made known to the world by his connection with the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 



The lamented decease of Henry Philip Cholmeley, Esq., of 

 Brandsby, the representative of a family from which the Society 

 has always received zealous support and intelligent co-opera- 

 tion, renders necessary the election of a fifth member of 

 Council, in addition to the four who retire according to the 

 law. 



