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lie would have presented to the Association. The collection 
of specimens, which is extensive and valuable, has been bv his 
Executor liberally presented to the Museum. A catalogue of 
the Birds of Yorkshire, more complete than any which natu¬ 
ralists possessed, was contributed by JMr, Allis, and the com¬ 
pilation of a list of the Yorkshire Fishes was entrusted to Mr. 
Meynell. Mr. Moore and Mr. Baines supplied a catalogue of 
the Plants of the county, supplemental to the excellent Flora 
printed by the latter in 1810. These researches into the 
Natural History of Yorkshire, it is hoped, will be further 
prosecuted; and, together with the collections of Meteorolo¬ 
gical Observations due to the industry of the Curator of that 
department, may hereafter constitute a publication which will 
go far to realize the expectations held out in the original 
prospectus of the designs of the Society. Two of the mem¬ 
bers of the Local Committee who, though residing at a dis¬ 
tance from York, assisted assiduously in all the preparations 
for the meeting, contributed also to the same scientific object; 
Mr. West by furnishing a chemical analysis of the Mineral 
Waters, and Mr. Lucas of the Limestones of Yorkshire. 
Another measure, preparatory to the Meeting of the Asso¬ 
ciation, but essentially serviceable to the objects of this So¬ 
ciety, consisted in a general revision of the arrangements of 
the Museum, and of the various collections which it comprises. 
When the Council came to consider the uses to vdiich it was 
most material to apply the munificent legacy lately bequeathed 
to the Society, they had no difficulty in determining that the 
object of the greatest importance to the scientific character 
of the Institution was to attach to it an officer v4io might 
not only be qualified by a competent knowledge of the va¬ 
rious branches of Natural History to take the collections 
under his charge, but might also be endowed with zeal 
and ability to improve them, and render them subservient 
to the promotion of science. Such an officer the Society 
formerly possessed in Professor Phillips, and such an of- 
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