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a passing mention. Dr. S. P. Woodward, F.G.S., &c., principal 
assistant in tlie Geological Department of the British Museum, 
was elected an Honorary Member of this Society in 1859, the 
year following his visit to York for the purpose of arranging 
onr Geological collection. Dr. Woodward had been for some 
years regarded as one of onr chief authorities in the palaeon¬ 
tology of the Invertehrata, and had received from the University 
of Gottingen an honorary degree of Ph. D., as a recognition 
of his scientific merits, only a few months before his death. 
John Hope Shaw, Esq., of Leeds, who also died during the 
year 1865, was elected an Honorary Member in 1860, in 
acknowledgment of his strenuous endeavours to bring about 
some beneficial co-operation among the Philosophical Societies 
of Yorkshire,—efibrts which, however, proved ineffectual, 
owing partly to the apathy shown by the Societies. 
The Council recommend the following gentlemen for election 
as Honorary Members of the Society:—John Evans, Esq., 
E. P. S., &c., a gentleman distinguished for his researches 
upon the pre-historic remains of the human race, and whose 
eloquent lecture upon flint implements delivered in our Theatre 
will still be present to the minds of many of the Members. 
Professor T. H. Huxley, E. P. S., &c., of the Poyal School of 
Mines, who stands in the first rank of Physiologists and 
Comparative Anatomists in this country; and P. L. Sclater, 
Esq., Ph. D., E. P. S., &c., Secretary to the Zoological Society 
of London, whose Ornithological writings and researches in 
Zoological Geography are well known, and who has a special 
claim to any distinction that we can confer upon him, for his 
kindness in procuring from the Council of the Zoological Society 
the series of its Transactions which they have so liberally 
presented to us. 
The Council recommend the election of Pobert Davies, Esq., 
E. S. A., and S. W. North, Esq., as Yice-Presidents; and as 
new Members of Council, the Pight Hon. the Lord Mayor 
(James Meek, Esq.,) the Pev. Canon Jones, Joshua Oldfield, 
Esq., and W. B. Pichardson, Esq., M. A., in the room of the 
Pev. G. H. Philips, E. Smallwood, Esq., W. Matterson, Esq., 
M. D., and S. W. North, Esq., who retire by rotation. 
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