OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 7 



all the departments of Natural History ; to receive specimens 

 of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology, and contain collec- 

 tions of Insects, Shells, and Birds. It will be open also io other 

 objectsof Scientific Curiosity, and will be a Repository for 

 those Antiquities, with which the County, and particularly 

 the City of York, is known to abound. 



In this statement of their designs, the Society not only have 

 it in view to increase their efficiency, by adding to the num- 

 ber of their Members, but hope also to induce many other 

 persons to promote, what cannot be considered otherwise than 

 as a project of public utility, by contributing to the Museum, 

 and particularly by sending to it Specimens of Minerals and 

 Fossils, which, of however little value they may appear, cannot 

 fail of being interesting, if the place in which they occur, the 

 kind of Stratum, and its position with respect to other Strata 

 in the neighbourhood, be only noted. Drawings and Casts 

 of Fossil Specimens in other Cabinets, will be very acceptable 

 to the Society.* They will also be greatly obliged by Commu- 

 nications addressed to their Secretaries, relative to the Strata 

 of any part of the Country, and particularly of Yorkshire. 

 Persons not pretending to much knowledge of Mineralogy, 

 may be of essential service, by observing those points of 

 JUNCTION, where different kinds of Rock come in contact with 



* Whenever it is practicalile, the Drawings ought to give the full front, and the 

 profile. These will assign the true outline. Cuvier's ' Ossemens Fossiles' rurnifth aa 

 illustration of the ad vantages of this method of description.— See Tom. II. 2de. 

 partie, Pi. 3. fig. 6. A. B. PI. 5. fig. 9. a. b. c. 



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