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fessional men such as miuing engineers, agriculturalists, medical 
men, and so forth. And here I must remark that the multiplication 
of such societies is not inimical, but helpful, to our central 
societies. The more societies we have in Yorkshire the more will the 
central society of the Yorkshire Geological Society prosper. The 
more societies are multiplied, the better for the central societies and 
for science itself Besides these societies we have more than a dozen 
museums in Yorkshire. I cannot help pointing to the importance of 
the work which has been done in Yorkshire by the extension of the 
Geological Survey. About 1850 it was that Sir Henry de la Beche 
commenced making the map, and it was a natural consequence that 
the man first associated with this work should be Prof. Phillips. 
That of Yorkshire, begun by Phillips, Smith, and Ramsay, soon came 
to a standstill, and was not resumed until 1867, when Prof. Green 
turned his attention to your great coal fields ; and Yorkshire is to be 
congratulated that in )"our school of learning Prof. Green should be 
the first Professor of Geology. The retrospect of the last 50 years 
of science in Yorkshire is indeed neither unsatisfactory nor wanting 
in encouragement. If, turning from the past we venture to glance 
into the future, we cannot fail to anticipate a great development in 
the years to come, of this most valuable principle of the association 
for the advancement of science. And this must go on until every 
town shall have its societies, where students of kindred spirits shall 
meet for mutual help and encouragement ; and every science shall 
be fed from these multiplied centres of influence ; till country districts 
shall be overrun by field-clubs and the lecture rooms and museums 
of the towns shall be besieged by the dwellers in the villages ; till 
those who labour in your own and other universities shall meet and 
join hands in efi^ort with the teachers in grammar schools — aye, and 
in Board Schools, too, in every part of this great country — till the 
solace of science, the true consolations of philosophy, shall be brought 
within the reach of every toil-worn man and woman in this great 
hive of industry ; and till the number be indefinitely augmented — 
" Of those that eye to eye shall look 
On knowledge, under whose command 
Is earth and earth's, and in their hand 
Is Nature like an open book." 
