PKOCEEDINGS 
or THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
(Of % ■eft-Pting of gorksfcxw, 
AT THE SIXTY-NINTH MEETING, HELD IN THE 
SALOON OF ST. GEORGE'S HALL, BRADFORD, ON MONDAY, 
MARCH 4TH, 1867. 
The Eev. Dr. Campbell, in the absence of the Vicar, who 
had been announced to preside, was called to the chair. 
The Chairman announced that indisposition prevented the 
Yicar's attendance, and that Mr. Meade, the president of the 
Philosophical Society, who would naturally have succeeded 
the Yicar, was engaged in professional duties. He (the 
Chairman) was present at the former meeting held in Brad- 
ford, and was very glad that the society had chosen Bradford 
again as the scene of its meeting. He would attempt to 
represent the spirit of the respected and reverend gentleman 
of whom he was the substitute when he said that the religion 
of which the vicar and he were ministers had not, and ought 
not to have, the slightest jealousy of the advancement of 
any department of knowledge. In their judgment, and 
he believed in the judgment of all intelligent believers in 
that religion, it had every interest in the progress of all 
kinds of true knowledge; and instead of dwelling upon a 
middle ground, and saying in a vague manner they believed 
that the discoveries of science and the progress of knowledge 
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