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REPORT. 
The Meeting, however, will judge from the Report which 
has now been made, and from the Documents which the 
Council has the honour to present,^ whether there is not just 
ground to hope, that the Public Patronage has been well 
bestowed. The treasures of Natural History which it 
appears have been already collected, the ample list of 
donations recorded at every meeting, the specimens this day 
produced of laborious and skilful industry in registering 
the contents of the Museum, ^ the Scientific Communications 
which have been read, ^ and the Papers which have been 
published ^ during the year, justify a reasonable confidence, 
that when the Society shall have built a splendid Museum, 
it will know the manner in which such an Institution 
should be employed, and feel the spirit with which it ought 
to be maintained. 
* See Appendix. 
^ A descriptive Catalo|pie of the English Coins in the Society’s possession, 
recently completed by the Curator of Antiquities ; and a specimen of a systematic 
Catalogue of the entire Collection of Natural History, by the Keeper of the 
Museum. 
® See Appendix, page 45. 
^ See Philosophical Magazine and Annals of Philosophy, for 1827 Mr. E. S, 
George’s Analysis of a Sulphuretted Water, from the northern part of the 
Yorkshire Coal-field: vol, i. p. 245.—Rev. W. V. Vernon on the Orange 
Phosphate of Lead ; ibid, p. 321.—Mr. William Smith on retaining water in 
rocks for Summer use ; ibid. p. 415.—Mr. J, Phillips on the Direction of the 
Diluvial Currents in Yorkshire ; vol. ii. p. 138. 
