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connected with the object which this Society proposes to 
investigate, will not long allow our medals of creation" 
to remain hidden in the dusky recesses of a forsaken wool 
warehouse. But still, if a splendid Museum be erected for 
our present collection, much remains to be done, and much 
may be done, if we all work together, and really and truly 
do our best to render the Museum, (what I trust and hope it 
will be one day,) the boast of the West Riding. Some gentle- 
men say " I don't know of any thing worth sending to the 
Museum;" another says, I have many specimens, but they 
are so common that they are sure to be rejected ;" a third 
says, " I don't know what objects are required for a Mu- 
seum." To them I would answer, every thing is worth 
sending ; nothing is too common nor will be rejected ; and in 
the sequel I will point out what are the various objects it is 
desirable the Museum should contain. 
We have now I believe members in almost everv town and 
village in the Riding ; throughout a great part of the district 
the earth has been explored for coal, numerous quarries of 
Sandstone and Limestone have been opened out, numerous 
deep and extensive cuttings for canals and railways have laid 
bare large extents of strata. Many of our members are 
connected directly or remotely with these undertakings, and 
here the entire materials for the Geoloo^ical Museum can be 
procured, and at no expense save that of sending them to the 
Museuji. The specimens found are of no value to the work- 
man, but he might readily be taught to distinguish and to 
preserve what is valuable for the Museum, and in a short 
time he would be brought to have a taste for searching for 
those trifles, as he would term them, which his employer 
wanted. You all probably remember the history of the dis- 
covery of the Burdiehouse fossils, by Dr. Hibbert, of Edin- 
burgh. On the first remains being found, they were shown 
to the workmen employed at the quarries, who said they had 
