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and road-making materials, together with tables and sections of 
borings and sinkings drawn to scale ; safety lamps of varied con- 
struction, and models of machinery all come within the area proposed 
to be covered by the museum. 
It was early in this year that the proposition was made to 
amalgamate this Society with the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, one 
of the stipulations being that the two societies should have a com- 
bined museum to be placed at York, This proposition caused 
considerable discussion, and was eventually decHned by the council 
of our society. The curator, and others of the council most interested 
in the museum and its contents, met frequently at the museum and 
arranged and labelled the specimens. During June, Mr. Wilson 
engaged a young man to collect fossils for the museum at the rate of 
21s. per week for himself, and his personal expenses. He visited the 
the pits at Elsecar and near Sheffield, and collected fossil ferns. His 
engagement did not last long, being determined by his acceptance of 
a situation as engine-driver. 
Mr. Wilson to Mr. Emhleton. 
Banks, Augmt 26th, ISJ^l. 
My Dear Sir, 
Dr. Buckland expresses a wish to be at our Annual Meeting, but 
cannot promise as his engagements are not quite at his disposal. He 
wishes us therefore to fix the time independently of him, and let 
him know, and he says the week between the 19th and 26th September 
will be most likely to find him at liberty. I have written to Lord 
Fitzwilliam to ask if Thursday the 23rd will suit him, and if it will, 
I think the council should decide on that day. I shall call a special 
council meeting as soon as I have his Lordship's answer. In the 
meantime can you spare a day, say early in the week, to complete the 
arrangements of the ^luseum. We might venture, I think, while 
you were arranging the remaining fossils, to be writing the names 
and the donors' names for those that are placed. I should be glad if 
you could order some cards, such as you think likely, and bring them 
with you. Mr. Briggs would, I dare say, assist us, and Mr. Holt 
might perhaps lend us one of his assistants for a day, for such a 
purpose. Or we might name these fossils on paper, and hire a person 
