REPORT. 
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with the materials of knowledge, and how desirous of 
encouraging, by all the means in its power, those honourable 
and useful studies, the cultivation of which, in their various 
branches, has raised to so high a pitch both the intellectual 
character and the commercial prosperity of this country. 
Should the Meeting concur with the Council in the views 
it has now suggested, it is proposed that a Committee should 
be formed, of Members of the Society residing in different 
parts of Yorkshire, for the purpose of carrying those views 
into effect. 
Encouraged by the success which attended the Lectures 
in the last spring, the Council have made proposals for two 
courses to be delivered in the present year, in the months of 
February and March: to one of these offers an answer has 
not yet been received ;* the other has been accepted, and Mr. 
J. Phillips, a gentleman with whose attainments the Meeting 
are well acquainted, and to whose intelligence and industry the 
Society has been greatly indebted, has undertaken to deliver, 
in February, a short course of Lectures on the Primitive 
Rocks and Organized Fossils, supplementary to those which 
were delivered in 1824, by his relative, Mr. Smith. 
In mentioning the name of Mr. Smith, the Council hope 
they may be allowed to express to the Meeting the satisfac- 
* Since the Report was presented to the Annual Meeting, Mr. R. Dalton has been 
engaged to deliver a course of nine Lectures on Mechanics, Hydrostatics, 
Hydraulics, and Optics: and Mr. Murray a course of twelve Lectures on 
Chemistry. 
