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money to purchase cases for the museum. It was also considered 
that it was very desirable that some of the proceedings and papers 
should be printed if the funds of the Society would afford the means 
to do so. 
The next quarterly meeting was held at the Cutlers' Hall, 
Shefl&eld, on the 6th June. The chair was occupied by Lord 
Howard. The society met as usual at 12.0 noon. At four the 
members adjourned to the Tontine Hotel, where they dined, the 
tickets, as the circular quaintly puts it, 6s. 6d. each, including a 
pint of wine, were to be had at the Inn. The following report of the 
meeting is abstracted from the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 
of the 8th of June, 1839. — The attendance at the forenoon 
meeting was highly respectable. Lord Howard having addressed the 
meeting, twenty-eight gentlemen were elected members of the 
society. 
Mr. T. W. Embleton, of Middleton, briefly remarked that at 
present there was no survey of the county on a large scale, such as 
was necessary to an accurate delineation of the geological features of 
the country. He hoped that, by the assistance of similar societies 
to this, in urging the matter on the attention of government, this 
important work might be promoted. He moved the adoption of a 
petition to the House of Commons, for a new ordnance survey of the 
Northern Counties on the scale of six inches to a mile. 
The Rev. W. Thorp, of Womersley, seconded the motion. 
The petition was read by the Secretary, and adopted. It set 
forth that the coal fields of this district extend over 462 miles, and 
contain many beds of coal and iron-stone of great importance to the 
manufactures of the country. That the risk and loss of capital in 
mining are greatly increased by the want of accurate knowledge of 
the condition of the minerals, and of records of former workings. 
That tho objects of this Society are chiefly to obtain correct informa- 
tion on these subjects, and to record it for the public use ; and that 
most of the gentlemen interested in the mining operations of the 
district have joined the Society. That a map on a large scale is 
necessary, because it is only on such a map that it is possible to lay 
down intelligibly and accurately the extent of seam, and the mag- 
