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Oil the subject. The committee to consist of Messrs. H, Briggs, 
T. Wilson, C. Morton, W. West, Rev. W. Thorp, and Messrs. H. 
Hartop, W. T. Hall and J. T. Clay. 
At the annual meeting, held at Sheffield in October, 1846, the 
President, Earl Fitzwilliam, as was usual, occupied the chair. The 
condition of the Society during the past two years was considered 
satisfactory and encouraging. Owing to the change of the office of 
secretary, the printed transactions of the Society; as well as the 
moneys due, had got considerably in arrear ; the Council were happy 
to state that these defects had been remedied. The debts of the 
Society were all paid off, and sufficient money collected to permit its 
affairs to be conducted with ease and satisfaction. The objects for 
which the Society was instituted continued to excite great interest, 
and the meetings held at the several towns had been numerously 
attended. An increased number of valuable communications had 
been made, which were published in the reports. The Council desired 
to express their warmest acknowledgments and gratitude to their 
enlightened and most noble President for his kind attention to the 
Society, and especially for so repeatedly presiding at its meetings. 
The subscriptions collected during the year 1846 amounted to £180 ; 
of this nearly £2d had been expended in fitting up geological cases, 
and towards erecting a new gallery in the Society's Room at the 
Philosophical Hall. The cash in the hands of the treasurer amounted 
to a little over f o. During the year it had been decided to appoint 
an assistant secretary, at a salary of £50 per annum, and Mr. Henry 
Denny, the curator at the Philosophical Hall, had accepted the office. 
Dr. Alexander, at Halifax ; Mr. Thomas Pitt, at Huddersfield ; l\Ir. 
Pliineas Beaumont, at Sheffield ; and Mr. George C. Walker, at Don- 
caster, were re-appointed local treasurers. At the annual meeting 
for the year 1847 the balance sheet presented by the treasurer was 
very satisfactory. £223 had been collected in subscriptions (in great 
.part consisting of subscriptions due for previous years), and when all 
indebtedness had been removed, a balance remained in the treasurer's 
hands of nearly .£58. This financial prosperit}^ appears to be mostly 
due to the exertions of Mr. Henry Denny, the assistant secretary, 
who at that time and for many succeeding years took an active and 
careful interest in the welfare of the Society. 
