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P.EPORT OF THE 
our Grounds, and saved from ruin some of the fairest archi¬ 
tecture of which ancient York can boast; and that sympathy 
and confidence will never be withdrawn so long as we can 
honestly demand them. 
Influenced by this conviction, the Society has continued 
and even extended in the present year the facilities of access 
to its Museum and Grounds ; these have been visited by a 
greater ,than the usual number of strangers ; twice opened 
for Horticultural Exhibitions, and twice for unreserved ad¬ 
mission of thousands of gratified visitors. But the most im¬ 
portant occasion when the usual Rules of Admission were 
relaxed or suspended, was that of the assembling, in August, 
of the Provincial Medical Association of England, to whose 
use this edifice and its contents were freely yielded for the 
days of their meeting in York. The collections of the So¬ 
ciety then inspected at leisure drew forth expressions of high 
approbation, and the friendly interest which the Society ma¬ 
nifested in the success of the Medical Association was fully 
appreciated and acknowledged by that distinguished body. 
In the same spirit, and encouraged b}^ this success, the 
Council would wish to welcome the Agricultural Association 
of Yorkshire, which has appointed its meeting, for 1842, to be 
held in this City in the month of August. The lapse of 
years has also brought within probability of fulfilment the 
expectation and desire of this Society to receive a meeting of 
that great British Association for the Advancement of Sci¬ 
ence, which, beginning within these walls in 1831, has held 
a prosperous and useful course through the large Cities and 
Towns of the Empire, and may now be induced by suitable 
invitations to re-assemble its numerous and distinguished 
members in Yorkshire. 
A proposition that this meeting should authorize an invi¬ 
tation, in the name of the Society, to the British Association 
