MARQUIS OF RIPOX, K.G., F.R.S. 37o 
like to see, a recognised connection between the Yorkshire College 
and other institutions of that kind and this Society. Two years 
afterwards his Lordship presided at the Jubilee meeting of the 
Society at Ripon. He reviewed to some extent the work of the 
Society during its fifty years of existence, and referred to some of the 
members who had conduced mostly to its success. He thought that 
the Society in its relation to mining industries and to the general 
progress and the commercial prosperity of the West Riding had been 
one of considerable benefit, and he considered that it was a duty of 
scientific men to see that science should be brought to bear upon the 
great industries of the country, and that its aid should be afforded 
largely to the promotion of those industries in every direction. He 
would indeed go so far as to say that, while scientific investigation 
should be conducted in a thoroughly scientific spirit, from a pure love 
for science, and without a mercenary regard to the pecuniary results 
which may attend it, yet the foremost work for us in a great indus- 
trial district like this, during the next fifty years, w^ill be to bring 
science and industry into the closest possible union, and thus to 
afford to science the opportunity of making her great conquests 
available for the advantage of mankind. 
LORD HOUGHTON. 
The late Lord Houghton was a member of this Society from its 
earliest years, and for a period of forty years was one of its Vice- 
Presidents. A large proportion of the following notice has been 
derived from an article contributed to the Leeds Mercury by Mr. J. 
Wemyss Reid, soon after his Lordship's death in August, 1885. 
Richard Monckton Milnes was born on the 19th of June, 1809, and 
was the son of Mr. Robert Pemberton Milnes, of Fryston Hall, who 
represented Pontefract in the House of Commons from 1806 to 1818. 
The family of Milnes is one of considerable antiquity in the county 
of York, its origin being traced to one William Milnes, who was 
living at Ashford, in Derbyshire, in the time of Queen Elizabeth. 
Towards the close of the seventeenth century, the Richard Milnes of 
his day settled at Wakefield, where representatives of the family are 
still to be found, the Milnes-Gaskells being descendants on the female 
side of the ancestors of Lord Houghton. It was not until tlie close 
