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and are under similar engagements to several other scientific 
Institutions. The accurate arrangement of the geological 
and mineralogical collections, which has been completed in 
the last year,* has enabled the Officers of the Society to 
separate the duplicates which they contain ; whilst it has 
already rendered the Museum a very instructive school to 
the student, and, in the Fossil department, a very compen¬ 
dious and useful account of the local Strata to the ex¬ 
perienced geologist. 
Having thus given a faithful statement of the resources 
which have been placed at their disposal, of the manner in 
which they have hitherto transacted the business of the 
Society, and of their views for the future, the Council venture 
to come before the Annual Meeting with a call for increased 
exertion. They are duly sensible of the zeal which has been 
already shown by the members of the Society, for the pro¬ 
motion of its laudable objects ; and they are encouraged by 
their sense of that zeal, to hope that an effort will now be 
made, to give a higher character of utility to its exertions, to 
support it in the way in which such an Institution ought to 
be supported by this great county, and to raise it to a state 
of which Yorkshire may have just reason to be proud. 
* The geological collection is arranged in the order of the strata, and each 
specimen labelled with its locality and scientific name. The minerals are arranged 
according to the classification of Mr. W. Phillips, in his “ Introduction to Mine¬ 
ralogy.” 
