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powerful instrument for the pm^pose. He was also a not 
unfrequent contributor to the Transactions of the Eoyal 
Astronomical Society, of which he was a Fellow. By his 
death the Yorkshire Philosophical Society has lost such a 
warm and active friend and benefactor as it will he difficult to 
replace. 
Of the British Association, whose jubilee is to he celebrated 
at York next year, Mr. Gray was one of the first founders, and 
was one of its joint-secretaries with Professor Phillips; and 
only a few weeks before his death he had put himself in com¬ 
munication with the Secretary of this Society with reference to 
the contemplated visit of the British Association to this city, 
offering some practical and valuable suggestions for securing 
the success of the meeting. 
The Council propose for election as Yice-President, in the 
room of the late Dean of York, the Hon. Payan Dawnay; and 
as members of Council, the Very Eev. the Dean of York, Dr. 
Shann, George Oldfield, and Mr. Alderman Terry, in room of 
the Eev. E. Daniel, Alfred Spence, William Lewin Newman, 
and James Melrose, who retire by rotation. 
