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and who, with the assistance of J. F. W. Johnston, Esq. who 

 attended the last meeting of German Naturalists at Hamburg, 

 proposed to draw up a set of regulations or laws to be submitted 

 to the society at its first meeting. 



Under these circumstances, I drew up the notice of the meet- 

 ing, which was published in the last number of this Journal, 

 and which has been widely circulated by the periodical press. 



These steps having been taken previous to the dissolution of 

 Parliament, it was conceived by some individuals, who were ex- 

 tremely anxious about the success of the plan, that the election 

 might interfere with the meetings of the society, and that it 

 might be more prudent to delay its establishment to another 

 year. As the political agitation of the country has entirely 

 subsided, there can be no sufficient reason for such a delay, and 

 it has accordingly been agreed upon to hold the first meeting 

 of the society at York on Monday the 9.Qth September. 



The following Regulations, most of which are adopted by the 

 German association, are suggested to the consideration of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society, who ought to be prepared 

 with a Code of Laws to be submitted to the Society at their first 

 meeting. The rules now suggested will be useful in enabling 

 those gentlemen who mean to attend, and who will be entitled 

 to act as Members, to transmit (post paid) any observations or 

 suggestions on this subject, to R. Phillips, Esq. Secretary to the 

 Philosophical Society, York. 



1. The Society shall be called the Society of the British 

 Cultivators of Science. 



2. The principal objects will be to promote personal inter- 

 course among scientific individuals, and to adopt every means 

 for advancing the interests of science in every part of the world, 

 by promoting scientific inquiries, and procuring assistance to 

 men of science in the prosecution of their researches. 



3. That the Society shall consist of those only who have' 

 written upon scientific subjects, or who have been the zealous 

 patrons of science. 



4. The Society shall be managed by a president and a secre- 

 tary, resident in the place of meeting for the time being. 



5. The Society shall meet annually on the and shall 



deliberate with open doors- 



6- The Society shall hold its meetings at different towns, 



