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Pounds; and it is calculated that about Sixty Pounds in 

 addition will be required to complete the arrangements ; an 

 expense which will be more than defrayed by the surplus of 

 income for 1823. 



The Committee have been enabled to apply the Society's 

 Funds to these objects with very little deduction, in conse- 

 quence of tlie low rate at which house-room has been 

 obtained. Twelve Members of the Society having purchased 

 a House with a view to its accommodation, require a rent of 

 only thirty guineas o. year for the five rooms which it oc- 

 cupies : these are occupied without payment of taxes, and 

 they are sufficient, at present, for the purposes of the Society, 

 in every respect but this, that none of the rooms are large 

 enough for the delivery of Lectures. 



The advantages which might accrue to the Society, and the 

 effect of diffusing a taste for Science, which might be expect- 

 ed from scientific Lectures given under the Society's patronage, 

 have been more than once adverted to in the General Meetijigs ; 

 and the Committee have, in consequence, taken measures to 

 accomplish so desirable an object : they have entered into an 

 engagement for a course of Lectures on Geology, to be 

 delivered in February, by Mr. William Smith, a name well 

 known to tlic Society, as that of a man to whom the Science of 

 Geology is highly indebted, both for establishing some of the 

 general principles on which it is studied, and for ascertaining 

 so much of its detail ; and who, after a practical acquaintance 

 of more than twenty years with the Strata of Yorksliire, is at 



