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work which the Society's Sub-Curator, Mr. Baines, is pre¬ 
paring for the press. His plan is to give a systematic catalogue 
of the native plants of the comity of York, to which there may 
probably be added hereafter a Fauna of the same district. 
The catalogue will be accompanied by notices of the situation 
in which each species is found, with the circumstances of the 
soil, substrata, and climate. The Curator of Botany has stated 
that the materials which Mr. Baines has already obtained, 
through his own exertions, the assistance of his friends, and the 
use of the Society's collections, with the aid which he has 
reason to expect from individuals and Societies in other parts 
of the county, will fully authorize a strong recommendation of 
the work to the attention of Botanists, and to the patronage of 
the Members of the Philosophical Societies of Yorkshire. 
A third subject of extensive interest, to which several 
Members of the Society have for some time past paid at¬ 
tention, and which it now appears practicable to prosecute in 
a systematic manner, is that of Meteorological observations. 
Whilst there is no science which is more in want than Meteor¬ 
ology of extensive and well conducted observations, there is 
none, perhaps, in which it is so easy to observe under proper 
directions. The instruments for measuring the pressure, tem¬ 
perature, and moisture of the atmosphere, which are sometimes 
sedulously used to very little purpose, might thus be made to 
minister useful materials to the highest speculations of science. 
To offer the requisite instructions, to promote as well as to 
make observations, and to extend them to all parts of the 
county, would be an office too laborious for any individual to 
undertake, and the Council have, therefore, constituted a 
Meteorological Committee, and engaged it to make an Annual 
Report of its proceedings and progress. 
With the pursuits of science the researches of Antiquarian 
learning have been combined in this Institution, and though 
