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upon them to pay immediate attention to the charge. They 
have already replaced the buttresses, of which the loss 
endangered the remaining aisle ; have secured the arch of 
the western window, and removed the unsightly materials 
of later date, with which the beautiful tracery was in some 
parts encumbered and defaced. They have not thought it 
in good taste to renovate, but have found it indispensably 
necessary to repair. 
The same feeling which forbids them to be negligent 
guardians of this inimitable specimen of Ancient Art, in¬ 
fluences the whole view in which they regard the Society’s 
present position as a Scientific Establishment; a feeling no 
longer merely of zeal for the promotion of art and science, 
but a more serious sense of deep responsibility. The Society 
has received favours of no inconsiderable magnitude ; it has 
experienced, in no ordinary degree, the munificence of a 
liberal Government, and the generosity of a public-spirited 
County. To acquit itself of the obligations which it is under 
to tliat liberality, and to keep faith with that public spirit, is 
a duty with which its Council is strongly impressed. When 
they look at the Site on which the Yorkshire Museum 
is beginning to rise ; when they count the Subscriptions, 
collected for its erection, and consider that this sum has been 
raised upon no transferable, and, in great part, upon no 
proximate and tangible interest—they cannot indeed repress 
their exultation, and are astonished at their own success. But 
at the same time, it is impossible for them to contemplate, 
without some degree of solicitude, the Debt of Honour which 
the Society has contracted, and the expectations which it is 
called upon to fulfil. 
