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in secular departments would be found in harmony with 
religion, their whole experience, and their experience of 
those very departments of science to which this society 
devoted its attention, had shown that it tended to the 
progress of intelligent religion. It was not merely to be 
found that religion was in harmony with science; it had 
benefitted, not only by the strengthening of the faculty and 
the passion of man's free, candid spirit of inquiry, but 
science was always bringing proofs and attestations of the 
truth and divinity of religion. The Chairman then made a 
short statement of the objects of the society, after which 
Mr. F. W. Tetley, of Leeds, and Mr. Burgess, of 
Brighouse, were elected members of the society. 
ON THE INHABITANTS OF YORKSHIRE IN PRE-ROMAN TIMES. 
BY THE REV. WILLIAM GREENWELL, M.A., CANON OF 
DURHAM. 
"We have few, if any, traces of man in Yorkshire before 
times which approach those that may be almost called 
historic.^ Of the men who lived when the mammoth, the 
tichorine, rhinoceros, and other extinct mammals occupied 
our country, we have no evidences at present, but we may 
expect to find them in deposits similar to those which, in 
Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, and other counties, have 
supplied them abundantly. Yorkshire has afforded many 
extinct mammalian remains, and I look forward confidently 
to the finding the implements of contemporaneous man. 
Nor have our caves given us any relics which, like those of 
the Dordogne, tell us of a later period, indeed, than that of 
the rhinoceros and its congeners, but still of one of enormous 
antiquity, when the reindeer ranged over central France, and 
when man had attained sufficient skill to represent, even 
artistically, that and other animal forms. And here we may 
