PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL & POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
m tie Wim^Winq of ITorfeftiire, 
AT THE FOUHTEENTH MEETING, HELD AT LEEDS ON THE 3bD 
JUNE, 1841, IN THE HALL OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND 
LITERARY SOCIETY OF LEEDS. 
On the motion of the Rev. Samuel Sharp, seconded by 
George Shaw, Esq., 
The Rev. Theophilus Barnes, Vice-President of the 
Society, took the Chair, and addressed the meeting as 
follows :— 
Gentlemen, — It is at the earnest request of your Council 
that I have presumed to permit myself to take this chair, 
for I deeply feel how deficient I am in Geological or Poly- 
technic knowledge to preside in a public meeting of this 
Society. I shall, however, proceed with some confidence, 
relying on your kind indulgence and assistance. 
I am told that this is but a small meeting, and certainly it 
is by no means as numerous as that which I last attended 
in this Philosophical Hall, but that was graced with the 
presiding talents and happy eloquence of the Vicar of 
Leeds. The smaller number of members present this morn- 
ing cannot surely be attributed to any diminished interest in 
the objects of this Society, or to the mode in which those 
objects are sought to be promoted. 
Those objects are best stated in the rules of this Society, 
passed at the last Autumn meeting, when our President 
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