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students to be answered; lectures are to be delivered, original ob- 

 servations are to be made, and experiments devised. Not, indeed, 

 that the whole of the labours should be devolved on the salaried 

 officers, but that all which must be necessarily left defective by 

 their more occupied coadjutors may be supplied, and the Institution 

 kept uniformly moving towards its intended objects." 



Mr. Phillips, the Keeper of the Museum, then enumerated the 

 donations which had been received since the last meeting. One of 

 the most attractive parts of the large display of donations accumu. 

 lated in one month, was the collection of bones of antediluvian 

 quadrupeds discovered on the property of W. Worsley, Esq. at 

 Bielbecks, near Northcliff. Of these important reliquiae, Mr. 

 Worsley has determined to present a selection to the cabinet of the 

 Society, already rich in such evidence of the ancient condition of 

 the earth. Placed beside the similar series from the caves of Kirk- 

 dale, Banwell, Kent's Hole, and Plymouth, they will afford to every 

 visitor of the Yorkshire Museum, the means of studying the 

 structure and habits of the lion, hyaena, elephant, rhinoceros, and 

 other gigantic animals, which formerly inhabited our island. 



The DiNNEii was attended by upwards of sixty gentlemen. After 

 which many animating addresses were delivered, from which we 

 select the following: 



The Chairman. — The toast I am going to propose to the present 

 company, is one to which I hope we shall all contribute as much as 

 is in our power. The prosperity of the Yorkshire Philosophical 

 Society you heard much about in the morning; and no doubt we 

 all feel great satisfaction at having built the Museum. It will be 

 recollected, that when Gresham College was pulled down to build 

 an excise office, nobody cared either about the lecturer or the lec- 

 tures; they were transferred to a little room, over the Royal Ex- 

 change, and hurried over, to an audience consisting of very few 

 persons: and thus the Institution, which was founded by that 

 liberal citizen Sir Thomas Gresham, in the reign of Henry VIII., 

 and which had produced many of the most renowned scientific 

 professors, such as Briggs, Wren, and others,— has dwindled into 

 insignificance. I hope that the reverse will be the case with this 

 Society ; and that the building of the Museum will be the means of 

 giving to it increased efficacy and energy. Gentlemen, I beg to give, 

 " Success to the Yorkshire Museum." 



The Hon. E. Petre rose, and v/as warmly greeted. — In proposing 

 the health of my reverend friend, (and proud am 1 to call him so,) I 

 am sure it will be drunk with the respect it deserves. If we look at 

 him in the various situations he fills; if we look at him as the 

 Christian minister ; if we look at him as the patron of science, — we 

 shall find him in all actuated by the same well regulated zeal, the 

 same spirit of true benevolence. I like to see the clergy come for- 

 ward, and support every thing having for its object the extension 

 of knowledge ; for it shows to me, as it must to every sensible man, 

 that they are influenced by a desire to promote the welfare of their 

 species. You all know the rapid progress which knowledge is 



making 



