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The following Lectures were delivered in the Theatre of the 
Museum during the past year:— 
Subject. Name of Lectueee. 
Eecollections of Continental Tra-) 
vel in the last G-eneration . . j Lev. Chas. Wicksteed, B.A. 
On the Sun.B. A. Peoctok, Esq., B.A. 
Mechanics of the Animal Cir- B. W. Eichaedson, Esq., M. D., 
culation . . . . . . . j E. E. S. 
The Ethnological ancl Pohtical 
History of the disputed Pro¬ 
vinces of Alsace and Lorraine 
On Ditto . ..Ditto. 
The Lives and Works of the ) Ven. Archdeacon OnuETOisr, 
principal Spanish Painters . ; M. A. 
The Impurities of Water . . . W. Peoctee, Esq., M. D., 
P. C. S. 
On Electricity.T. H. Wallee, Esq., B. A. 
On Skipton Castle.Enwn. Hailstone, Esq., F.S. A. 
Twelve Members have been lost to the Society by death or 
resignation during the past year. This Society has especially 
to mourn the loss by death of the Eev. Win. Yernon Harcourt, 
one of the Founders of the Society and its first President. 
This office Mr. Harcourt resigned in the year 1831, but 
from that date until the removal of his residence from York 
and its neighbourhood to the Family Seat at Nuneham, near 
Oxford, in the year 1863, he continued, as one of the Vice- 
Presidents, to take a most active part in extending and pro¬ 
moting its usefulness. It is impossible for those not conversant 
with the past history of this Society to appreciate the great 
labours of Mr. Harcourt on its behalf, and no name in its 
annals is entitled to higher honour or respect. Especially 
to Mr. Harcourt’s exertions is the Society indebted for the 
land which forms the original site of the Museum and the 
surrounding gardens, now one of the chief ornaments of oim 
city. It was on his application, supported by the influence of 
his Venerable Father, the Archbishop of York, that the Crown 
made the original grant of the land to Twelve Trustees (of 
whom Mr. Harcourt was the last survivor), for the purposes of 
E. Gr. Latham, Esq., M. A., 
. M. D., P. E. S. 
