OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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all tlie departments of Natural History ; to receive specimens 
of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology, and contain collec¬ 
tions of Insects, Shells, and Birds. It will be open also to other 
objects of Scientific Curiosity, and will be a Repository for 
those Antiquities, with which the County, and particularly 
the City of York, is known to abound. 
In th is statement of their designs, the Society not only have 
it in view to increase their efficiency, by adding to the num¬ 
ber of their Members, but hope also to induce many other 
persons to promote, what cannot be considered otherwise than 
as a project of public utility, by contributing to the Museum, 
and particularly by sending to it Specimens of Minerals and 
Fossils, which, of however little value they may appear, cannot 
fail of being interesting, if the place in which they occur, the 
kind of Stratum, and its position with respect to other Strata 
in the neighbourhood, be only noted. Drawings and Casts 
of Fossil Specimens in other Cabinets, will be very acceptable 
to the Society.* They will also be greatly obliged by Commu¬ 
nications addressed to their Secretaries, relative to the Strata 
of any part of the Country, and particularly of Yorkshire. 
Persons not pretending to much knowledge of Mineralogy, 
may be of essential service, by observing those points of 
junction, w here different kinds of Rock come in contact with 
* Whenever it is practicable, the Drawings ought to give the full front, and the 
profile. These will assign the true outline. Cuvier’s ‘ Ossemens Fossiles’ furnish aa 
illustration of the advantages of this method of description.—See Tom. II. 2de. 
partie, PI. 3. fig. 6. A. B. PI. 5. fig. 9. a. b. c. 
