24: REPORT. 



The Meeting, however, will judge from the Report which 

 has now been made, and from the Documents which the 

 Council has the honour to present,^ whether there is not just 

 ground to hope, that the Public Patronage has been well 

 bestowed. The treasures of Natural History which it 

 appears have been already collected, the ample list of 

 donations recorded at every meeting, the specimens this day 

 produced of laborious and skilful industry in registering 

 the contents of the Museum, ^ the Scientific Communications 

 which have been read, ^ and the Papers which have been 

 published * during the year, justify a reasonable confidence, 

 that when the Society shall have built a splendid Museum, 

 it will know the manner in which such an Institution 

 should be employed, and feel the spirit with which it ought 

 to be maintained. 



' Sec Appendix. 



• A descriptive Catalogue of the English Coins in the Society's possession, 

 recently completed by the Curator of Antiquities ; and a specimen of a systematic 

 Catalogue of the entire Collection of Natural History, by the Keeper of the 

 Museum. 



' See Appendix, page 45. 



* See Philosophical Magazine and Annals of Philosophy, for 1827 : — Mr. E. S. 

 George's Analysis of a Sulphuretted Water, from the northern part of the 

 Yorkshire Coal-field: vol. i. p. 245.— Rev. W, V. Vernon on the Orange 

 Phosphate of Lead : ibid. p. 321.— Mr. William Smith on retaining water in 

 rocks for Summer use : ibid. p. 415.— Mr. J. Phillips on the Direction of the 

 Diluvial Currents in Yorkshire : vol. ii. p. 138. 



