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time, been usually brought under the consideration of the 
Society. The object of the Society, as stated in the rules, 
was to obtain information bearing upon the mineral resources 
of the district and the manufactures connected with them, and 
on the condition of the population engaged in the operations 
connected with these minerals and manufactures. And, 
certainly, these had very properly formed, — and he trusted 
would continue to form, — prominent objects of consideration 
whenever the Society met ; but, within the meaning of the 
word " polytechnic," in its more extended sense, were 
included works of art. The present meeting would be 
partly occupied in listening to a paper relative to 
Roman coins, discovered in this county, and which, through 
the liberality of a Yorkshire nobleman, Lord Londesborough, 
had been presented to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 
and the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Two 
papers would also be read upon those very interesting relics 
of antiquity, the crosses discovered on taking down the 
Parish Church of Leeds, nearly twenty years ago — in 1838 — 
the origin of which would, no doubt, be the subject of dis- 
cussion. One of the learned authors of these papers (the 
Rev. Mr. Haigh) was present ; the other (Mr. Chantrell) 
whose researches were so well known as to entitle his 
opinions to the greatest respect was unable to attend. 
He did not know precisely what views these gentlemen 
entertained in regard to these crosses, but he was 
sure that all would listen to them with much interest. 
In inquiries of this kind, though the antiquity of the 
subjects might not be so obvious as those which, according 
to the usages of the Society, claimed the principal portion 
of its attention, yet the difference was not so great as it 
appeared at first sight. They were valuable records which, 
might tend materially to elucidate history at a period when 
written history was very obscure; and they were certainly 
