PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
€H tije OTest ftiotng of fgorfcsljtu, 
AT THE SIXTY-FIFTH MEETING, HELD IN THE 
GYMNASIUM HALL, HUDDERSFIELD, ON THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH, 1864, 
AT TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON. 
Frederick Robert Jones, Esq., in the Chair. 
The Rev. G. Lloyd, of Thurstonland ; John Freeman, 
Esq., Huddersfield ; and Benjamin Crowther, Esq., Wake- 
field ; were elected members. 
The Chairman then called upon the Eev. W. C. Lukis, 
F.S.A., to read a Paper 
ON THE HISTORY OF LEEDS BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST, 
BY THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., F.R.S., ETC., OF LONDON. 
The science of history is perhaps the highest of all the 
sciences, inasmuch as its object is to make us acquainted 
with man in the exercise of his most divine faculties, whether 
for good or for evil, with the progress of his mental culture, 
in a word, with the development of his destiny ; it prepares 
him for the future by the knowledge of the past. Moreover, 
man seems to have a natural tendency to the study of history, 
he seeks with eagerness to trace the revolutions of peoples 
and kingdoms which are known to him, he is anxious to 
become acquainted with the history of his own country, and, 
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