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request the Secretary to proceed with the business of the 
morning. 
The following gentlemen were then elected Members of 
the Society: — 
T. D. Bland, Jun., Esq., Kippax Park. 
E. B. Denison, Esq., M. P., Doncaster. 
C. Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, Pontefract. 
James Heywood, Esq., E.G. S., Acrefield, Manchester. 
Mr. Timothy Farrer, Jun., Wragby. 
The Secretary then read the following special report of 
the Council: — 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND POLY- 
TECHNIC SOCIETY, PRESENTED 3d JUNE, 1841. 
It has not been the practice of the Council to lay a report 
before the Society, except at the Annual Meetings ; but a 
question of great interest and importance has long occupied 
their attention, on which it is now desirable that the opinion 
of the Society should be expressed. 
From its earliest establishment, the great object of the 
Society has been to pursue the study of local geology, and 
to direct the knowledge thus acquired to the advancement of 
every art to which it was applicable. No sooner, therefore, 
was it aware that the Yorkshire Agricultural Society had 
directed its attention to the important aid which geology 
might render to agriculture, and had appointed a committee 
of agricultural geology, than the council offered to lend it 
every assistance within the sphere of the Society's operations; 
and at the same time, they gladly availed themselves of an 
offer made by the Rev. Wm. Thorp, to draw up a report on 
the geology, as connected with agriculture, of particular 
formations in the West Riding. Of the very admirable 
manner in which these reports were executed, it is unneces- 
sary for the Council to speak, since they have already called 
