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with the materials of knowledge, and how desirous of 

 encouraging, by all the means in its power, those honourable 

 and useful studies, the cultivation of which, in their yarious 

 branches, has raised to so high a pitch both the intellectual 

 character and the commercial prosperity of this country. 



Should the Meeting concur with the Council in the views 

 it has now suggested, it is proposed that a Committee should 

 be formed, of Members of the Society residing in different 

 parts of Yorkshire, for the purpose of carrying those views 

 into effect. 



Encouraged by the success which attended the Lectures 

 in the last spring, the Council have made proposals for two 

 courses to be delivered in the present year, in the months of 

 February and March : to one of these offers an answer has 

 not yet been received ;* the other has been accepted, and Mr. 

 J. Phillips, a gentleman with whose attainments the Meeting 

 are well acquainted, and to whose intelligence and industry the 

 Society has been greatly indebted, has undertaken to deliver, 

 in February, a short course of Lectures on the Primitive 

 Rocks and Organized Fossils, supplementary to those which 

 were delivered in 1824, by his relative, Mr. Smith. 



In mentioning the name of Mr. Smith, the Council hope 

 they may be allowed to express to the Meeting the satisfac- 



• Since the Report was presented to the Annual Meeting, Mr. R. Dalton has been 

 engaged to deliver a course of nine Lectures on Mechanics, Hydrostatics, 

 Hydraulics, and Optics: and Mr. Murray a course of twelve Lectures on 

 Chemistry. 



