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LUKIS: GEOLOGY AND AKCHiEOLOGT. 
Your accomplished Secretary, Mr. James W. Davis, has written 
an exceedingly interesting- biographical notice of Professor Phillips, 
who, for the long period of thirty years was so actively engaged in 
investigating Yorkshire rocks, and in giving lectures in the county, 
that he might almost be claimed as a fellow-countryman of yours ; 
which notice has been printed in Vol. VIII., of the Society's Proceed- 
ings. In it he remarks : — My recollection is very fresh of his kind 
*' and genial face, his winning and encouraging smile, the ever-ready 
" and wise words with which he brightened and eulivened the most 
" perplexing question, and the deep knowledge and great experience 
" which lay below and prompted all his observations.** These 
remarks are especially applicable to Professor Sedgwick, who, being 
a Yorkshireman by birth, possessed in a remarkable degree the 
faculty of attracting the admiration, and retaining the affectionate 
respect of all the members of the University, old and young. If his 
features were somewhat rugged, his eloquence and animation in 
public lecturing, and in social converse, were most pleasing, and his 
soul overflowed with so much wit and humour that he was a most 
agreeable and fascinating companion. But over and above these 
attractive qualities, he was an earnest and sincere believer in the 
Great and Almighty Architect of the Universe, and, when lecturing, 
was always careful to impress upon the minds of the young students 
of science that no geological discoveries would ever be found to 
conflict with the truth of the Sacred History. 
The title of the Institution, which we have the honour to welcome 
to this city, would seem to imply, upon the face of it, that its sphere 
of inquiry is limited to the geology of Yorkshire, and to those 
natural formations which, by the application of machinery and other 
appliances are rendered beneficial to mankind. 
I propose to point out in very few words in my brief 
address, that this would be a too-narrow view, and in what manner 
archseology is connected with it. If the researches of the society's 
members were confined to the field of geology and mechanical 
science alone, however important to the community at large, and 
interesting to many, they might prove, they would not satisfy and 
interest everybody. All of us are not geologists, nor are we all 
