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26. The Society shall not be dissolved except at a Special General 
Meeting called for the purpose, (of which three months' notice shall 
be given to each Member by the Post,) and by a majority of three- 
fourths of the Members present, and in case of the dissolution of 
the Society, its Collections shall not be sold, but presented to some 
National, Local, or Permanent Institution. 
The following Communications were tlien made to the 
Society : — 
ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE WEST-RIDING OF YORK- 
SHIRE, CONSIDERED GEOLOGICALLY— AND FIRST, 
OF THE NEW RED SANDSTONE DISTRICT. BY 
THE REV. WM. THORP, OF WOMERSLEY. 
The intimate relation which subsists between 
Agriculture and Geology is evident to every scientific 
agriculturist ; indeed of such importance is it that 
a sub-committee have been appointed by the Yorkshire 
Agricultural Society to obtain An Essay on the 
Agricultural Geology of some part of Yorkshire. In a 
printed report they state that " the object of their 
" appointment was to show in how great a measure 
" soils, and therefore their vegetable products, are 
" modified by the strata on which they rest ; and thus 
" to prove to the agriculturist that to farm to advantage 
" it is necessary to be acquainted with the leading 
" geological features of the district in which he resides ; 
" that agriculture is already to a considerable extent 
" carried on upon geological principles, though without 
the knowledge of the occupier of the farm." And, in 
order to carry their purpose into effect, they enumerate 
six points requiring notice, viz. : — " 1. The geographical 
"limits of the formation. 2. Its general character, such 
"as height and form of hills, or ridges, depths of 
" beds, &:c. 3. Its chemical composition. 4. The 
