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REPORT. 
Pounds; and it is calculated that about Sixty Pounds in 
addition will be required to complete the arrangements ; an 
expense which will be more than defrayed by the surplus of 
income for 1823. 
The Committee have been enabled to apply the Society’s 
Funds to these objects with very little deduction, inconse¬ 
quence of the low rate at which house-room has been 
obtained. Twelve Members of the Society having purchased 
a House with a view to its accommodation, require a rent of 
only thirty guineas u. year for the five rooms which it oc¬ 
cupies : these are occupied without payment of taxes, and 
they are sufficient, at present, for the purposes of the Society, 
in every respect but this, that none of the rooms aie laige 
enough for the delivery of Lectures. 
The advantages which might accrue to the Society, and the 
effect of diffusing a taste for Science, which might be expect¬ 
ed from scientific Lectures given under the Society’s patronage, 
have been more than once adverted to in the General Meetings; 
and the Committee have, in consequence, taken measures to 
accomplish so desirable an object: they have entered into an 
engagement for a course of Lectures on Geology, to be 
delivered in February, by Mr. William Smith, a name well 
known to the Society, as that of a man to whom the Science of 
Geology is highly indebted, both for establishing some of the 
general principles on which it is studied, and for ascertaining 
so much of its detail; and who, after a practical acquaintance 
of more than twenty years with the Strata of Yorkshire, is at 
