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REPORT OF THE 
the liberal manner in which the call of the Council was re¬ 
sponded to, when application was made to the Members of the 
Society, and to other gentlemen residing within the county, 
for contributions to the Reception Fund; the sum raised 
in consequence having amounted to nearly dCllOO. 
Secondly, this result was owing to the generous co-opera¬ 
tion of the Authorities of the City, who, under the guidance 
of those enlightened views by wdiich they are distinguished, 
placed the Guildhall and its numerous apartments at the ser¬ 
vice of the Association ; and to a similar feeling on the part 
of other public bodies, who, almost without exception, granted 
the gratuitous use of the rooms under their charge. 
Lastly, the success of the arrangements was due to the 
indefatigable exertions of the Local Committee, a body wFich, 
whilst it included members of several other scientific insti¬ 
tutions belono-ino; to this countv, was so constituted that the 
Council were enabled with perfect confidence to intrust the 
interests and credit of the Society to its hands, and to devolve 
upon it the whole charge of those preparations which proved 
so highly satisfactory. 
One of the most important preliminary measures, in a 
scientific view, which the Council adopted, was to request 
several Members of the Society, and others competent for the 
task, to draw up reports on the several branches of the Natural 
History of Yorkshire, especially with regard to the geogra¬ 
phical distribution of its plants and animals, and the mineral 
productions of its mining districts. 
The report on the last-mentioned subject was zealously 
undertaken by a Member of the Society, who had long de¬ 
voted his energies and talents to the promotion of its in¬ 
terests ; and whose untimely loss it had to deplore at a mo¬ 
ment when his exertions in its behalf were of the greatest value. 
Mr. Hatfeild had expressly undertaken a tour through the 
mining districts of the North of England, for the purpose 
of collecting mineral specimens, and obtaining mineralogical 
information, with a view to the report which, had he lived, 
