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The following gentlemen were then declared duly elected 

 to he the officers of the Society, hy the provisions of rule 13: 



EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S. 



Duke of Norfolk. 

 Earl of Effingham. 

 Earl of Dartmouth. 

 Lord Wharncliffe. 

 Lord Stourton. 

 Viscount Milton. 

 Viscount Howard, M.P. 

 Hon. W. S. Lascelles, M.P. 

 Hon. J. S. WoRTLEY, M.P. 

 Sir F. L. Wood, Bart. 

 Sir W. B. Cooke, Bart. 

 Rev. Dr. Scoresby. 

 Rev. S. Sharp. 

 Rev. T. Barnes. 



T. W. Beaumont, Esa. 

 J. S. Stanhope, Esa. 

 R. O. Gascoigne, Esq. 

 G. Lane Fox, Esq. 

 J. W. Childers, Esq. M.P. 

 E. B. Beaumont, Esq. 

 G. Wentworth, Esq. 

 "W. Bennett Martin, Esq. 

 C. J. Brandling, Esq. 

 J. G. Marshall, Esq. 

 Michael Ellison, Esq. 

 T. D. Bland, Jun. Esq. 

 P. D. Cooke, Esq*. 

 Wm. West, Esq. F.R.S. 



Council. 



H. Briggs. Charles Morton. Rev. W. Thorp. 



W. T. Hall. George Welch. H. Clarkson, 



H. Hartop. Thomas Wilson. J.Westmorland. 



J. M. Stansfeld. W.R. H.Johnstone. Charles Locke. 



Jbecretarg ants Creagurer. 

 Joseph Travis Clay, Rastrick, Huddersfield. 



fl^onorarj) (Curators. 

 T. W. Embleton and Henry Holt. 



^ulritors. 



Benj. Biram and G. W. Chambers. 



Mr. West then read the following Paper : — 



ON A REMARKABLE CASE OF THE ACTION OF SPRING 



WATER ON LEAD BY WILLIAM WEST, ESQ., HIGHFIELD 



HOUSE, NEAR LEEDS. 



The mutual reaction of water and lead becomes of increas- 

 ing practical importance as the increase of population and 

 refinement causes us, in the country as well as in towns, to 

 recede from the primitive method of supply, — carrying the 

 pitcher to the spring, — and to substitute pumps and cisterns. 



