WORK AND PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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rogate, another gentleman of the name of Mr. Easterfield, also a 
student of the Yorkshire College, had also read a paper at one of 
the meetings of that society. He wished to take that opportunity 
of urging strongly upon other students of that college and similar 
institutions to follow the example of those gentlemen, and thus do 
something to establish what he would like to see, a recognised con- 
nection between the Yorkshire College, and other institutions of that 
kind, and that society. He assured those present that all connected 
with the Yorkshire College at Leeds were specially anxious to make 
it what its name implies, a college for Yorkshire, and one of the 
modes of doing that was to bring it into as close union as they 
could with other institutions in the county having educational 
objects in view, and it was upon that account that he had learned 
with so much satisfaction that those two gentlemen whose names 
he had mentioned had set what seemed to him a very good example 
to their fellow students, and had done much to promote a connec- 
tion between that and similar societies, and the Yorkshire College, 
from which he believed all parties were likely to derive considerable 
benefit. He would not detain them longer, but in conclusion he 
assured them that meetings of that kind could not fail to be produc- 
tive of much good if it was the constant endeavour of each member 
to submit to the society the records of personal and original obser- 
vation, investigation, and study, constantly bearing in mind that 
every new fact, however apparently insignificant, provided it was a 
real and tested fact, had a substantial scientific value, and that it 
might, however small it might at first appear to be, nevertheless 
contain within it the germ of some wide-reaching discovery of no 
small scientific importance, rich T^^th new fruits of theory and of 
practice. 
