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REPORT OF THE 
The range of temperature was 79°; from 84° on July 20th 
to 5° on December 30th. 
The Rain-fall was nearly S inches below a mean. The 
range of the barometer was 2T4 inches, from 30*78 in March 
to 28'64 in November. 
S. and S. W. winds have prevailed. 
The Society has lost by death and resignation during the 
past year thirteen Members, five Lady Subscribers, and three 
Associates; whilst fourteen new Members, eight Lady Sub¬ 
scribers, and four Associates have been elected. Pre-eminent 
among the names which will no longer remain on the Society’s 
list of Yice-Presidents is that of Professor Phillips, who died 
from the effects of an accident at All Soul’s College, Oxford, on 
the 23rd of April, 1874, at the age of 73. The late Professor 
Phillips first became known to this Society in 1824, when he 
accompanied his uncle, Mr. William Smith, the father of 
English Geology, to York, who was then engaged in investi¬ 
gating the strata of Yorkshire for the purpose of correcting his 
celebrated Geological Map, and had been retained by the 
Society during the first year of its existence to deliver a course 
of Lectures on Geology at York. In the following year Mr. 
Phillips was engaged to arrange the fossils in the Society’s 
Museum, and in 1826 he was elected to the office of Keeper of 
this Museum. On November 7th in that year Professor 
Phillips read his first paper before the Society “ On the 
probable direction of diluvial currents over parts of Yorkshire 
and neighbouring Counties.” This paper, v/liich was printed 
in the following year in the TMlosopMcal Magazine, appears to 
have been his first contribution to Geological Literature. How 
Yorkshire henceforth became thoroughly the field of his laboui’s, 
and with what industry and skill he explored almost every liill 
and dale of this vast county to elucidate its geological and 
mineralogical history, and to determine its physical character, 
is best shown in his first published work, The illustrations of 
the Geology of Yorkshire,” and subsequently in his “ Rivers, 
Mountains, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire.” For several years 
subsequent to this period Mr. Phillips appears to have delivered 
