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and are under similar engagements to several other scientific 

 Institutions. The accurate arrangement of the geological 

 and mineralogical collections, whicli has been completed in 

 the last year,* has enabled the Officers of the Society to 

 separate the duplicates which they contain ; whilst it has 

 already rendered the Museum a very instructive school to 

 the student, and, in the Fossil department, a very compen- 

 dious and useful account of the local Strata to the ex- 

 perienced geologist. 



Having thus given a faithful statement of the resources 

 which have been placed at their disposal, of the manner in 

 which they have hitherto transacted the business of the 

 Society, and of their views for the future, the Council venture 

 to come before the Annual Meeting with a call for increased 

 exertion. They are duly sensible of the zeal which has been 

 already shown by the members of the Society, for the pro- 

 motion of its laudable objects ; and they are encouraged by 

 their sense of that zeal, to hope that an efibrt will now be 

 made, to give a higher character of utility to its exertions, to 

 support it in the way in which such an Institution ought to 

 be supported by this great county, and to raise it to a state 

 of which Yorkshire may have just reason to be proud. 



* The geological collection is arranged in the order of the strata, and each 

 specimen labelled vrith its locality and scientific name. The minerals are arranged 

 according to the classificatioa of Mr. W. Phillips, in his " Introduction to Mine- 

 ralogy." 



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