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the office of Honorary Secretary in the room of Mr. Allis, if it 

 be the pleasure of the Annual Meeting to elect him. 



The scientific eminence of Professor Owen renders it un- 

 necessary for the Council to say anything, in support of the 

 Resolution which they will submit to the meeting, for placing 

 his name in the list of Honorary Members. 



It only remains for the Council to notice some losses which 

 the Society has sustained by death during the past year. They 

 have already placed among their proceedings a Resolution, 

 expressive of their regret at the decease of their highly esteemed 

 member and Vice-President, Mr. Wellbeloved, and their sense 

 of the benefit which the Yorkshire Philosophical Society derived 

 from his talents, zeal and learning ; and his services, continued 

 to the latest period of his lengthened life. In this tribute to 

 his memory they have no doubt that the members of the Society 

 will cordially concur. Mr. Robinson had filled the office of 

 Secretary, from the year 1837 to 1842 ; he had been frequently 

 a member of the Council, and had always manifested a lively 

 interest in the welfare of the Society. The list of its original 

 members, already become so limited, has been further diminish- 

 ed by the death of the late Dean of York, Sir Wm. Cockburn ; 

 and among our Honorary Members, the distinguished names of 

 Mr. Warburton and Dr. Peacock will no longer appear. In 

 Mr. Joseph Clark of Cincinnati we have lost a foreign member 

 who, in his remote locality, was ever mindful of our interests, 

 and has enriched our Museum with many valuable specimens 

 of Natural History. 



Three Members of Council — Mr. James Meek, junior, Mr. 

 Fowler Jones and Mr. Seymour retire by rotation, and are 

 ineligible for the present year. 



