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museum, had been enabled by the liberality of their noble president 
to purchase a site ; but finding themselves at present disappointed 
in their expectations, they have considered it advisable to accept an 
advantageous offer for its disposal. In the meantime they have not 
neglected an object so important, but have fitted up the- temporary 
museum with cases, and can now invite the members to inspect it. 
The collection, notwithstanding the short time since the cases were 
completed, amounts to nearly 1000 specimens, and contains many 
very valuable fossils, and the members are earnestly invited to 
renewed exertions to add to its stores. 
A revised Code of Rules was presented and adopted by the 
meeting, one of which provided that the property of the Society 
should be vested in twelve trustees. By the power afforded under 
Rule VIL Mr. James Heywood, vice-president of the Manchester 
Geological Society, was elected an honorary member. It will be 
noticed that the name of the Society now indicates not only the 
Geological but also the Polytechnic side of its work, the latter term 
having been omitted when the first brief rules were drawn. 
The following are the rules presented by the committee appointed 
at the last meeting : — 
Rules. 
1. The title of tlie Society shall be the Geological and Poly- 
technic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 
2. Tlie objects of the Society shall be, 1st, the investigation of 
the Geology of the West Riding, with the accuracy and minuteness 
necessary for the successfid prosecution of mining and agriculture ; 
2nd, the improvement of the arts of mining and metalhirgy, and their 
dependent manufactures, and of the machinery and tools employed 
therein ; and 3rd, the amelioration of the condition of the population 
connected therewith. 
3. The means by which it shall pursue these objects shall be 
the collection of maps, plans, sections, models, mining records, and 
every kind of information respecting the geological structure and 
mineral resources of the country ; the construction of a complete 
geological map or model, with a book of reference ; the formation of 
a museum, as well of the various fossil and mineral products of the 
