OBJECTS 



YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



The general object of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 

 is the promotion of Science in the district for t^hich it has 

 been instituted. To this end, it would enroll among its 

 members, not only those who are themselves engaged in 

 philosophical studies, but all by whom the value of such 

 studies is duly appreciated ; not those alone who hope to 

 extend the boundaries of knowledge by their own researches, 

 but all who are willing to encourage the prosecution of such 

 researches by others, and to concur in furnishing those 

 facilities to scientific enquirers, which a Philosophical 

 Association is capable of affording. 



In the confidence of meeting with general support, and of 

 being enriched with gratuitous contributions, the Society 

 originally fixed its terms of Subscription very low, in order 

 that, if possible, no cultivator of science might be excluded by 

 pecuniary considerations. The extensive and opulent County 

 of York possesses the power of patronage to an ample degree ; 

 and the public spirit and liberality which the Society has 

 already experienced, give it every reason to expect, that the 



