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On the motion of Mr. O'Callaghan, the following noble- 
men and gentlemen were appointed as the Officers and 
Council of the Society for the ensuing year : — 
^restocnt. 
THE EARL DE GREY AND RIPON. 
The Duke of Leeds. 
The Eael of Effingham. 
The Eael of Dartmouth. 
Eael Fitzwilliam. 
Loed Whaencliffe. 
Viscount Galway. 
Viscount Milton. 
Loed Londesborough. 
Rt. Hon. Sie Chas. Wood, 
Heney Beiggs, Esq. 
De. W. Alexandee. 
H. C. Soeby, Esq., F.R.S. 
Heney Holt, Esq. 
Bentley Shaw, Esq. 
T. P. Teale, Esq. 
Ttcc^rcsftfcnts. 
John Wateehouse, Esq., F.R.S. 
W. B. Beaumont, Esq., M.P. 
E. B. Denison, Esq. 
Wm. Beckett, Esq. 
R. M. Milnes, Esq., M.P. 
John Spencee Stanhope, Esq. 
GODFEEY WeNTWOETH, ESQ. 
J. G. Maeshall, Esq. 
Baet. Thomas Wilson, Esq. 
(Council. 
RlCHAED CAETEE, ESQ. 
T. W. Embleton, Esq. 
John Hope Shaw, Esq. 
De. Scholefield. 
Wm. Chad wick, Esq. 
Samuel Baines, Esq. 
I§onorar» Secretary. 
William Sykes Waed, Esq., F.C.S. 
If onorarrj Curators. 
J. G. Maeshall, Esq. | T. W. Embleton, Esq. 
"Eocal Secretaries. 
H. C. Soeby, Esq., F.R.S., Sheffield. 
Heney Beiggs, Esq., Wakefield. 
De. W. Alexander, Halifax. 
De. Scholefield, Doncaster. 
Bentley Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield. 
Richaed Caetee, Esq., Barnsley. 
The first Paper read to the Meeting was — 
ON THE FORMER EXISTENCE OF THE ROEBUCK IN THE 
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. BY MR. H. DENNY, A.L.S. 
As no amount of knowledge of the physical geography 
of Britain will supply evidence which could warrant 
a belief so apparently absurd as that the peaceful 
and rural districts of Yorkshire, or even the sites of our 
busiest towns, were once the abodes of large carnivorous 
and herbivorous quadrupeds, whose present analogues are 
now only to be found in tropical or boreal regions, we 
