REPORT. 19 



present employed in preparing a corpccted edition of his 

 Geological Map of the County. They propose also, with the 

 approbation of the Meeting, at a more advanced period of the 

 year, to avail themselves of the talenis of a -well qualified 

 Lecturer in Chemistry, who has oflered his services to the 

 Society. 



The Committee are of opinion that Lecturers of superior 

 qualifications, ou a variety of subjects, might hereafter be' 

 engaged on advantageous terms, if a system of co-operation 

 could be established among the numerous Scientific Societies 

 which are springing up in every part of England. To this 

 end, they have put themselves in correspondence wiHi the 

 Members of the Philosophical Institutions at Manchester and 

 Bristol ; and, with the sanction of the Meeting, shall proceed 

 to invite other Societies to join in their views. 



The plans which the Committee have thus formed, are pro- 

 posed in the confidence that they will meet with the ready 

 and adequate support of the inhabitants of the city and 

 vicinity of York, to whom, whether Members of the Society 

 or not, it is presumed that the establishment of able Lectures 

 in the various branches of knowledge, will appear an 

 important acquisition. Should the Committee even be dis- 

 appointed in this expectation, the experiment involves no 

 material risk to the Society's funds : should it prove successful, 

 to the degree only of paying the salaries of the Lecturers 

 and the rent of a Lecture room, the Committee think jt very 



