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to copy them neatly at liis leisure. We should also select a decent 
box for Exeter, and then we sliould immediately get a good selection 
in return. I hope Mr. Batty has completed the cases. You will 
perhaps think it desirable to remind jNIessrs. Leah and Hird of their 
promise of fossils, &c., and request them to send what they have 
immediately. Our council meeting might be on Friday, the 3rd 
September, it would not require to be a long one, and would therefore 
not be inconvenient to those who attend the AVakefield market. Can 
yon bring the Wortley Fire Clays ? 
I am, my dear Sir, yours sincerely, 
Thomas Wilsox. 
P.S. — I shall have very shortly to make up my accounts for 
the auditor. Can you get in the Leeds subscriptions ? 
P. P.S. — Had we not better have a great many of the cards ready 
printed ? It would be clearer, more ready, and no great expense, 
and the "Presented by" may stimulate others through their 'love of 
approbation ' as the Phrenologists say, to go and do likewise. 
On September 3rd a meeting of the Council was held, and the 
remainder of the day Messrs. Thorp, Briggs, Wilson and Embleton 
spent in the museum. 
Mr. Wilson to Mr. Emhleton. 
Banks, 8th September, 18J4. 
My Dear Sir, 
If you are disengaged on Saturday next, I could meet you at the 
museum at 10 o'clock, and we could set some one to work lettering 
the specimens. I feel almost sure of Dr. Buckland ; Lord Fitzwilliam 
would write to invite him )"esterday. Mr. Sopwith has also promised 
to come, and offered four papers. I have chosen one " On preserving 
Railway Sections, Sinkings and Borings." 
Mr. Hartop tells me that there is great probability that Mr. "W. 
V. Harcourt will be at Wentworth at the time, as the Hearths at 
Elsecar will be ready to be opened, under which they deposited a 
number of substances to test the action of great and continued heat. 
I have written to all our architects to announce ]\Ir, Waller's 
paper, and to beg for specimens of building stones, viz., Messrs. 
Chantrell, Moffatt, Hindle and Sharp ; to Messrs. Chambers, and to 
