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MAEQUIS OF EIPON : 
the fact that fifteen students of colleges at Oxford should have 
spent their vacation in undertaking' work of that kind out of love for 
geological science. Last year the society went very nearly into his 
own neighbourhood to hold one of their meetings — they held a 
meeting at Harrogate, and he was particularly sorry that he should 
have been absent at the time, and not able to take part in the meet- 
ing on that occasion. Their attention was then naturally directed 
to those extremely savoui y and delightful waters which are to be 
found at Harrogate. They doubtless investigated all their various 
qualities, and he perceived from the list of papers which had been 
shown him that a very considerable number — what he thought it 
was the fashion in these days to call a symposium of papers — 
was read upon the subject of the analysis of the Harrogate 
waters — a very natural subject for a symposium. There was one 
circumstance connected with these papers which had been exceed- 
ingly interesting to him individually, because he found that one of 
them was read by a student of the Yorkshire College, who had 
devoted himself to the subject with which the paper dealt at the 
suggestion of his friend Professor Thorpe. It was very pleasant 
to him, connected with that college, to find that one of its students 
had been engaged in an investigation of that kind ; and he took that 
opportunity to express a hope that other students would follow the 
example of Mr. Whiteley, and do original work and conduct obser- 
vations, and that they would do the society the honour of publishing 
them in their proceedings. They would all be aware that the 
society had been engaged in works of exploration at Raygill, which 
he understood had been stopped for a considerable time in conse- 
quence of a huge mass of rock which required to be removed. He 
was glad to sa.y that the difficulty had now been overcome, and that 
the work had been resumed, or would be shortly. He thought that 
the facts which he had briefly recounted of the work which had 
been done in the past five years were sufficient to convince them, 
and the public outside, that that society was not merely a dilettante 
society, but that it was doing good, substantial, scientific work 
calculated to confer real benefit upon the county, and to promote 
the best interests of science. He hoped that they would not think 
