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Yorkshire, are disposed to unite in prosecuting their 

 common objects ; objects which may be in many respects 

 materially advanced by mutual aid and friendly coopera- 

 tion.* 



Having thus given a general view of the proceedings and 

 progress of the Society, and having laid before the meeting 

 a full and explicit statement of its pecuniary affairs, the 

 Council, in concluding, must express their conviction, that 

 the success and the character of the Institution justify the 

 expense of the arrangements which have been made for its 

 accommodation ; and that its future prospects would have 

 been injured, if the general design had been narrower, or its 

 execution less perfect. They venture to hope that the 

 public favour which has prospered it so far, will be 

 so much further extended, as not to leave it in an em- 

 barrassed condition ; and they trust, when the Annual 

 Meeting assembles again within the walls of the New 

 Museum, it will be in their power to congratulate the 

 Society on the enjoyment of all the advantages which it 

 has acquired, unincumbered and complete. 



' In addition to Mr. Phillips's Lectures, announced in page 18, a liberal offer 

 was made on the day of the Annual Meeting, by E. S. George, Esq. F.L.S. 

 Curator of the Leeds Phil, and Lit. Society, to deliver a course of four 

 experimental lectures on some of the most interesting subjects of Chemical 

 Science ; the proceeds of the course to be applied to the establishment of the 

 Society's laboratory. These lectures will be given during the Autumn, in the 

 Theatre of the New Museum. 



