222 REV. W. THORP, B.A. — AGRICULTURAL GEOLOGY, ETC. 
and that there are many other points beside the museum for us to 
discuss, and have strong^ urged his going. He has undertaken to 
assist them with their geological report for Hull ; and has already 
met them on that business. Let me hear from you as soon as you 
can. 1 am, my dear Sir, yours sincerely, 
Thomas Wilson. 
The meeting of the joint committees was duly held at York, and 
a report of the meeting and proposals was prepared, to be submitted 
to the meeting of the members of the Geological Society, at Leeds, on 
June 3rd. 184L The report was as follows : — It has not been the 
"practice of the Council to lay a report before the Society except at 
the annual meetings ; but a question of great interest and importance 
has long occupied their attention, on which it is now desirable that 
the opinion of the Society should be expressed. From its earliest 
establishment the gTeat object of the Society has been to pursue the 
study of local geology, and to direct the knowledge thus acquired to 
the advancement of every art to which it was applicable. No sooner, 
therefore, was it aware that the Yorkshire Agricultural Society had 
directed its attention to the important aid which geology might 
render to agTiculture, and had appointed a committee of Agricultural 
Geology, than the Council offered to lend it every assistance within 
the sphere of the Society's operations ; and at the same time they 
gladly availed themselves of an olTer made by the Rev. William 
Thorp, to draw up a report on the geology as connected with agricul- 
ture, of particular formations in the West Riding. Of the very 
admirable manner in which these reports were executed it is unneces- 
sary for the Council to speak, since they have already called forth 
the warmest eulogiums of the leading members of the Yorkshire 
AgTicultural Society, and have mainly led to their making the pro- 
posal which the Council now wish to receive the careful consideration 
of the Society. It is proposed then that a joint meeting of the two 
societies should be held once a year ; that at this meeting papers 
should be read on the application of Geology to Agriculture ; and 
that the reading should be followed by discussions. 
The Council believing that such a meeting would be productive 
of very beneficial results, recommend that the Society should hold a 
