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REPORT OE THE COUNCIL FOR 1856. 
were derived from specimens in our Museum. The Council 
may be allowed, at the same time, to remark with pride and 
pleasure, that the talents of his distinguished successor in the 
Readership of Geology, at Oxford—Professor Phillips—were 
first made known to the world by his connection with the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
The lamented decease of Henry Philip Cholmeley, Esq., of 
Brandsby, the representative of a family from which the Society 
has always received zealous support and intelligent co-opera¬ 
tion, renders necessary the election of a fifth member of 
Council, in addition to the four who retire according to the 
law. 
