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MARQUIS OF RIPON, K.G., F.R.S. 
when they left the Universities, or the Higher Schools, or Mechanics' 
Institutes, and help them to cany on in after life the studies which 
they had hegun there. It should be their business to take these 
young men, from whatever class of life they might have sprung, to 
test, and to guide, and to encourage them, and to enable them to 
apply the teachings which they might have received at the school or 
tlie college, in the field of actual experiment, and to carry on through- 
out life, and in the midst of the business engagements of life, not 
only the cultivation of their own minds but the advance and progress 
of scientific enquiry in the county. Very' shortly after this meeting 
the Marquis of Ripon left England as the Viceroy of India, which 
honourable position he held for upwards of five years. Shortly after 
his return he presided at a meeting held at York on September 9th, 
1885. He assured the members that it aftbrded him great pleasure 
to meet once more the members of the Society after having been so 
long separated from them, and from his other friends in the county, 
by the public duties which he had been discharging in a distant part 
of Her Majesty's dominions. Those duties had prevented him keep- 
ing abreast with geological science, and though he dwelt for a large 
portion of the year not very far from those Sewalik Hills which were 
so interesting to geologists, he was not able to study any of the 
Geology of India ; but he could say that the Government of India 
were well alive to the importance of scientific investigation, and 
recognised it as part of their duty to it, as far as they could con- 
sistently with their financial means. He then reviewed the work of 
the Society for the past few years, especially referring to the papers of 
Mr. Lamplugh, which had served to some extent as the basis of a 
portion of the report of the Geological Survey referring to Holderness 
prepared by Mr. Clement Reid, and to the work of Mr, Vine, who had 
been requested by the British Association to prepare a report on 
Fossil Polyzoa. It was also pleasing to find that two students of the 
Yorkshire College, Mr. Easterfield and Mr. Whiteley, had contributed 
original papers to the proceedings of the Society. Referring to the 
latter, he took the opportunity of urging strongly upon other students 
of that college and similar institutions to follow the example of 
those gentlemen, and thus do something to establish, what he would 
