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REPORT or THE 
At the Soiree held in the Museum, the Members and other 
individuals contributed a very interesting and well-executed 
collection of photographs of landscape, architectural and figure 
subjects, which were exhibited in the Library and Galleries of 
the Museum. Many of these views were printed in platinum 
and other black and white processes, and showed that photo¬ 
graphy was justly entitled to rank as one of the fine Arts. 
The opening address of the Winter Session was delivered 
by the President of the Section, Dr. T. Anderson, in the 
Theatre, and was thrown open to the Members of the Society 
in general. The subject,Notes on a Photographic Tour in 
Iceland,” was illustrated by lantern views prepared from 
negatives taken by the lecturer during a visit to that island, 
and strikingly depicted the scenery of the country and the 
salient physical features for which it is so highly celebrated. 
The death of Archbishop Thomson has removed from the 
head of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society its President. It 
is not within our province to speak of the valuable official life 
of the late Primate, but we cannot overlook the services he has 
rendered to Social Science and Philosophical enquiry. His 
“ Outlines of the Laws of Thought,” which is still a text book 
on that interesting subject, was written whilst the author was 
an undergraduate at Queen’s College, Oxford. Soon after he 
became Archbishop he became President of this Society, and 
took the warmest interest in its success. In 1866 he delivered 
and published his inaugural address, and two years afterwards 
he gave a lecture at Edinburgh on “The Limits of Philosophical 
Enquiry.” We are not aware that he published anything else 
on these topics—his official duties almost prohibited that—but 
he was at all times deeply interested in social and scientific 
subjects, especially in the health of towns, the housing of the 
working classes, and in tha mental as well as the moral 
improvement of the people. He was a Fellow of the Royal 
and Geographical Societies, and President of the Palestine 
Exploration Fund. But although the Archbishop’s numerous 
and almost overwhelming labours precluded the possibility of 
his writing any large scientific work, he found his chief 
recreation in his library, in which almost every branch of 
