OBJECTS 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
The general object of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 
is the promotion of Science in the district for which it has 
been instituted. To this end, it would enroll among: its 
members, not only those who are themselves engaged in 
philosophical studies, but all by whom the value of such 
studies is duly appreciated; not those alone who hope to 
extend the boundaries of knowledge by their own researches, 
but all who are willing to encourage the prosecution of such 
researches by others, and to concur in furnishing those 
facilities to scientific enquirers, which a Philosophical 
Association is capable of affording. 
In the confidence of meeting with general support, and of 
being enriched with gratuitous contributions, the Society 
originally fixed its terms of Subscription very low, in order 
that, if possible, no cultivator of science might be excluded by 
pecuniary considerations. The extensive and opulent County 
of York possesses the power of patronage to an ample degree; 
and the public spirit and liberality which the Society has 
already experienced, give it every reason to expect, that the 
