REPORT, 
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present employed in preparing* a corrected edition of his 
Geological Map of the County. They propose also, with the 
approbation of the Meeting, at a more advanced period of the 
year, to avail themselves of the talents of a well qualified 
Lecturer in Chemistry, who has offered his services to the 
The Committee are of opinion that Lecturers of superior 
qualifications, on a variety of subjects, might hereafter be 
engaged on advantageous terms, if a system of co-operation 
could be established among the numerous Scientific Societies 
which are springing up in every part of England. To this 
end, they have put themselves in correspondence with the 
Members of the Philosophical Institutions at Manchester and 
Bristol; and, with the sanction of the Meeting, shall proceed 
to invite other Societies to join in their views. 
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The plans which the Committee have thus formed, are pro¬ 
posed in the confidence that they will meet with the ready 
and adequate support of the inhabitants of the city and 
vicinity of York, to whom, whether Members of the Society 
or not, it is presumed that the establishment of able Lectures 
in the various branches of knowledge, will appear an 
important acquisition. Should the Committee even be dis¬ 
appointed in this expectation, the experiment involves no 
material risk to the Society’s funds : should it prove successful, 
to the degree only of paying the salaries of the Lecturers 
and the rent of a Lecture room, the Committee think it very 
