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for ^lou. Amoiiifst tlie iirst list of honorary members of the 

 Society occur the names of W. Spence, A. H. Haworth, P. W. 

 Watson, and the Rev. J. B. Kmmett — some of the foremost oi' 

 Hull's scientific worthies. The first paper read and discussed 

 by the members was ' On the Geolog'y of the Neio^hbouring- 

 District,' a significant title and an appropriate subject, and no 

 doubt one of the main reasons of the early success of this Society, 

 as a scientific bod}', was to a large extent due to the local fla\our 

 of its addresses and discussions. 



The following interesting entries occur within the first year's 

 report: — 'Mr. John Murray, F.S.A., F.L.S.,etc., well known 

 as an able lecturer on various branches of science, being at that 

 time (January 1824) in Hull, the Council engaged him 

 to deliver a course of twelve lectures on chemistry, for the sum 

 of ^,'42. These lectures were given in the Exchange and proved 

 highly advantageous to the Society, as the expenses exceeded 

 the receipts by only ^£6 7s. gd., for which sum all the members 

 of the Society had free admission to them ; besides which they 

 were the means of adding considerably to the number of the 

 members on account of the privilege just mentioned.' 



Again, ' Mr. Smith, the well-known laborious author of the 

 g'eological maps of England and Yorkshire, and his nephew, 

 Mr. J. Phillips, being in this county in November, the Council 

 eagerly embraced the opportunity of engaging these gentlemen 

 to deliver a course of nine lectures on the interesting study of 

 geology, for the sum of ;^5o, which were given at the Assembly 

 Rooms in the month of December, and illustrated by numerous 

 drawings and specimens, in which the Society's museum was 

 again found to be exceedingly useful; and it must be satisfactory 

 to the members to learn that it was pronounced by those com- 

 petent judges to contain a highly valuable set of specimens. 

 The [net] cost to the Society of these lectures was only ^.12 9s., 

 and they were accompanied by an accession to the list of 

 members fully counterbalancing that sum, so as, in point of 

 fact, to have been enjoyed h\- the Society g"ratis.' After this 

 Phillips frequently lectured in Hull, and also arranged the 

 geological collections in the museum and added specimens to 

 the cases. 



This was in Phillips' )oung days, even before he was 

 appointed to the curatorship of the museum at York, and the 

 Hull Society had every reason to be proud of securing the 

 services of the man who ev^entually proved to be one of York- 

 shire's most brilliant geologists, as well as those of his uncle, 

 William Smith, the father of English geology. As a memento 

 of their visit, however, the Hull Museum possesses some of the 



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