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HISTORY OF THE. SOCIETY. 75 
Limehills, Malham, Horsforth Wood, Adel, and Garforth. The 
excursions, as contrasted with those of the preceding season, were 
not so well attended. 
A very successful Exhibition of objects of natural history was 
organized in the middle of November 1871. It lasted for four 
days, and was held in the large Lecture Hall of the Young Men’s 
Christian Association. On the first evening, addresses were 
delivered by the President and other gentlemen, 
At the commencement of the year Mr. W. H. Broadhead of 
Chapel-Allerton offered a prize of 20/- for the best collection of 
land and fresh-water shells formed during the summer of 1871 
within ten miles of the Leeds Town Hall. The prize was deservedly 
gained by a very excellent collection submitted to the judges 
(Messrs. John Dixon and John W. Taylor) by Mr. Henry Shaw. 
The accommodation at the Young Men’s Christian Association 
proving unsatisfactory, a much more convenient room was secured 
at the Leeds Mechanics’ Institute, the first meeting in the new 
room being held on the 6th February 1872. 
The second Annual meeting was held at the Mechanics’ Institute 
on the 21st March 1872. The Secretary again gave an oral 
account of the condition of the Society’s affairs, the number of 
members being given as 32. 
The Financial Statement showed that with a revenue of £2. 0.9 
the balance at the close of the year was 8/9. Mr. Thomas Hick, 
B.A., B.Sc., was chosen President, Messrs. James Abbott and 
William Todd Vice-Presidents, and Messrs. James Brodie and 
Wm. Denison Roebuck joint-Secretaries, while Messrs. T. G. 
Denny, A. W. Dodgshun, Henry Douglas, J. Hezmalhalch, G. W. 
Newton, George Rodwell, S. Scholefield, and John W. Taylor 
were elected to serve on the Council. At this meeting a sub-com- 
mittee was requested to take into consideration the condition of 
the Society and to report on the desirability of its being re-organized 
upon a broader and more comprehensive basis. 
1872—1873, 
For some years a private SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION, consisting of 
five members, viz:—Messrs. James Abbott, James Wm. Davis, 
Thomas Hick, F. Arnold Lees and William Todd, but having no 
rules or formal organization, save that Mr. Abbott acted as 
chairman and Mr. Hick as convener, had been in the habit of 
meeting weekly at the residence of one or other of its members, 
for the purpose of reading papers and discussing matters of scientific 
terest. This society gradually merged itself, about this date, by 
a process of natural absorption into the Leeds Naturalists’ Field 
