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Iron, it was known, required a great heat to melt it, and thia 

 heat could not be so well applied to the iron ore as when 

 there was a certain quantity of carbonate of lime within it. 

 This carbonate of lime was supplied in very great quantity 

 in the new iron-stone mine which had been discovered, and 

 one great advantage of the discovery was the employment 

 which it had created. Castleford people were engaged to 

 take the ore to Newcastle, where they found coal, and there 

 employed themselves and their vessels in whatever might 

 turn out. 



The following gentlemen were then elected Members of 

 the Society : — 



James Kitson, Esq., of Leeds; 



G. E. DoNiSTHORP, Esq., of Leeds; 



Mr. William Ramsden, of Wakefield. 



A Paper was then read — 



ON THE PROCESS OF SMELTING IRON WITH ANTHRACITE 

 COAL AND THE HOT BLAST; AND ON THE ADVAN- 

 TAGEOUS USE MADE OF THE GASEOUS ESCAPE FROM 

 THE BLAST FURNACES AT YSTALYFERA IRON WORKS, 

 NEAR SWANSEA. BY W. S. WARD, ESQ., OF LEEDS. 



The Paper was a recapitulation of the principal points in 

 the communication of Mr. Budd, manager of the Ystalyfera 

 Iron Works, made at the last meeting, at Swansea, of the 

 British Association, with several additional observations by 

 Mr. Ward, founded upon a careful personal examination of 

 the works named. The original paper is about to be published 

 at length in the Transactions of the British Association^ and 

 copious extracts from it have already appeared in the Athe- 

 ncBum and other newspapers. Mr. Ward stated that he was 

 precluded from publishing his paper in extenso, lest it should 

 injure the more elaborate communication of Mr. Budd in the 

 Transactions ; and as we have thus indicated to those who 

 are interested in the matter where they may procure the 



