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PROCEEDINGS RELATIVE 
On Wednesday the 24th of October, 1827, His Grace 
the Archbishop of York, accompanied by the Right 
Honourable the Lord Mayors, and attended by the Presi¬ 
dent, Council, and Committee, \vilh the resident Architect, 
laid the First Stone of the Yorkshire Museum, near the 
north west angle of the intended edifice. 
After performing the usual ceremonies, the Archbishop 
addressed the President in the following words : 
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Committee, 
It is with the truest pleasure, that I have now executed the task 
assigned to me, and have laid the First Stone of your intended 
Museum, 
««I rejoice, indeed, that the moment has at length arrived, when a 
building for this purpose, worthy of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society, is about to be erected ; a building calculated to contain not only 
the present, but whatever further treasures of Natural History and of 
philosophical research, may hereafter be added to the rich and valuable 
Collection which the Society already possess. And when we recollect 
that this Institution has existed little more than five years, and may, 
therefore, in some sense, be regarded as yet only in its infancy ; when 
we recollect, too, the difficulties of various kinds which impeded its 
early progress, to say nothing of the doubts which were, at first, pretty 
generally entertained of its ultimate success ; when all this is considered, 
we may fairly, I think, congratulate ourselves on the position we this 
day assume, assembled as we are for such a purpose as the present. 
^ William Hutchinson Hearon, Es^, 
