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which will be found elsewhere, and Mr. Sopwith exhibited a model of 
the Forest of Dean and an isothermal projection of the mining dis- 
trict of Alston Moor. 
Messrs. Embleton, Morton, Briggs, Holt, Hartop and Wilson 
were appointed a committee to draw up rules for the government of 
the Society to be considered at the next annual meeting ; and the 
Rev. W. Thorp, Mr. Hartop and Mr. Lucas were appointed a deputa- 
tion to represent the Society at the meeting of the British Association 
at Glasgow. 
Mr. Wilson to Mr. Emhleton. 
Banks, near Barnsley, 
20th July, 18J/.0. 
Dear Sir, 
I am anxious to hear from Professor Sedgwick, in answer to a 
letter I wrote him a few days since, before I call a council, as his 
reply will probably influence our decision as to the time of holding 
the annual meeting. It is not easy to know what to do, and I shall 
be glad if you will weigh the question well in all its bearings, that 
we may not hastily decide. 
Professor Phillips has abandoned the Geological Report for the 
Agricultural Society, and Mr. Thorp asks if it is probable that his 
undertaking the district between the Aire and the Don would attract 
to us the patronage of the country gentlemen. This is a most 
valuable and seasonable suggestion, and I have of course requested 
him to set to work directly. I have written to the secretary of the 
Agricultural Society for a few copies of their committee's report, in 
the hope that he will, when he sends them, ask our co-operation. 
I had previously hinted to Mr. Wentworth that we might be of use 
to them. Through this means, the presence of the savants, of our 
president, and a little judicious puffing, we might I think collect a 
good many of the recusant at our meeting, and it has struck me 
that if we were to have a grand dinner in the Exchange Rooms, for 
one hundred persons, and work hard to get tickets taken, we should 
muster a good party, and hook in a large addition of subscribers. 
There is no doubt of Lord Fitzvvilliam's attendance, and his 
family. Lord WharnchfFe is to be the new president of the Agri- 
