36 FROOEEDINGS RELATIVB 



On Wednesday the 24t]i of October, 1827, His Grace 

 the Archbishop of York, accompanied by the Right 

 Honourable the Lord Mayor*, and attended by the Presi- 

 dent, Council, and Committee, with the resident Architect, 

 laid the First Stone of the Yorkshire Museum, near the 

 north west angle of the intended edifice. 



After performing the usual ceremonies, the Archbishop 

 addressed the President in the following words : 



" Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Committee, 



« It is -with the truest pleasure, that I have now executed the task 

 assigned to me, and have laid the First Stone of jour intended 

 Museum. 



<* I rejoice, indeed, that the moment has at length arrived, when a 

 building for this purpose, worthy of the Yorkshire Philosophical 

 Society, is about to be erected ; a building calculated to contain not only 

 the present, but whatever further treasures of Natural History and of 

 philosophical research, may hereafter be added to the rich and valuable 

 Collection which the Society already possess. And when we recollect 

 that this Institution has existed little more than five years, and may, 

 therefore, in some sense, be regarded as yet only in its infancy ; when 

 we recollect, too, the difficulties of various kinds which impeded its 

 early progress, to say nothing of the doubts which were, at first, pretty 

 generally entertained of its ultimate success ; when all this is considered, 

 we may fairly, I think, congratulate ourselves on the position we this 

 day assume, assembled as we are for such a purpose as the present . 



' William Hutchinson Hearon, Esq. 



