IIG 
MARQUIS OF KIPON : ?UTURE EXTENSION. 
affiliation of bodies, large and small, in different parts of the county, 
the members of which were engaged in scientific investigation, they 
would be likely to take a deeper interest in their work than they do at 
present. Another advantage following such an arrangement would 
be gained by the general cause of science, for there would be a 
greater certainty of securing a full and adequate record of the 
scientific investigation going on and the facts brought to light by that 
research. It might be very difficult to estimate the real value of any 
scientific fact of which they acquired the knowledge. The fact which 
might at first seem of little value might bring out the true principle, 
and the result would be an advance of the cause of science in a way 
they had not been expecting. It was the duty of every student of 
science to record in his own note-book ever}' scientific fact he could 
add to those previously known. He need not dwell upon the advan- 
tages to be gained by the combination and co-operation of the larger 
bodies with the smaller. Whether the movements were political, social, 
or scientific, they would all agree that combination and co-operation 
would tend to the furtherance of those objects. It was true with 
regard to scientific inquiries, as it was in any other work going on in 
the country, that if there could be a direct interchange, and com- 
munication, it worked to the advantage of all concerned. There were 
connected with those local bodies many members who were not suffi- 
ciently possessed of this world's goods to be able to pay the subscription 
demanded by their Society. They ought to offer such nren every means 
of making themselves acquainted with the proceedings of their Society. 
He had been induced to make those remarks in the hope that prac- 
tical steps would be taken with a view of making some arrangements by 
which the local bodies might be offered an affihation upon the pay- 
ment of a certain annual subscription on behalf of the Society. He 
was disposed to think that if an arrangement of that kind were 
effected, the members of the affiliated Societies might be permitted 
to attend the meetings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic 
Society. In conclusion, his Lordship said that both as regarded the 
balance-sheet and the general details of the report, the report was 
one with which they might well be satisfied. 
