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wark which the Society's Sub-Curator, Mr. Baines, is pre- 

 paring for the press. His plan is to give a systematic catalogue 

 of the native plants of the county of York, to which there may 

 probably be added hereafter a Fauna of the same district. 

 The catalogue will be accompanied by notices of the situation 

 in which each species is found, with the circumstances of the 

 soil, substrata, and climate. The Curator of Botany has stated 

 that the materials which Mr. Baines has already obtained, 

 through his own exertions, the assistance of his friends, aaid the 

 use of the Society's collections, with the aid which he has 

 reason to expect from individuals and Societies in othra* parts 

 of the county, will fully authorize a strong recommendation of 

 the work to the attention of Botanists, and to the patronage of 

 the Members of the Philosophical Societies of Yorkshire. 



A third subject of extensive interest, to which several 

 Members of the Society have for some time past paid at- 

 tention, and which it now appears practicable to prosecute in 

 a systematic manner, is that of Meteorological observations. 

 Whilst there is no science which is more in want than Meteor- 

 ology of extensive and well conducted observations, there is 

 none, perhaps, in which it is so easy to observe under proper 

 directions. The instruments for measuring the pressure, tem- 

 perature, and moisture of the atmosphere, which are sometimes 

 sedulously used to very little purpose, might thus be made to 

 minister useful materials to the highest speculations of science. 

 To offer the requisite instructions, to promote as well as to 

 make observations, and to extend them to all parts of the 

 county, would be an office too laborious for any individual to 

 undertake, and the Council have, therefore, constituted a 

 Meteorological Committee, and engaged it to make an Annual 

 Report of its proceedings and progress. 



With the pursuits of science the researches of Antiquarian 

 learnmg have been combined in this Institution, and though 



