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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the HERBARIUM 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
AND THE CONTRIBUTORS THERETO. 
By Henry J. Wilkinson, Honorary Curator of Botany. 
PART I. 
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society was formed in 1823 
for the promotion of Science, also the study of Natural History, 
and in order to meet the requirements of the Society a Museum 
was erected, the first stone of which was laid on the 24th October, 
1827. 
The Herbarium of the Society contains over ten thousand 
specimens of British, European, and Asiatic plants, and includes 
collections of British Plants from the following : — 
Rev. James Dalton, F.L.S., 1827-1887; W. Middleton, 1827; 
Giles Munby, 1833 5 Samuel Hailstone, F.L.S., 1859. 
HONORARY CURATORS. In accepting the donations of 
specimens, the Council appointed the Rev. William Hincks, F.L.S., 
to the office of honorary curator of Botany. In 1828 he commenced 
to arrange the various collections according to the system of De 
Candolle, but unfortunately for the Society he was unable to 
complete the arrangement of the Cyperacecc , Graminece , Filices , &c. 
Mr. Hincks was lecturer on botany at the York School of 
Medicine, and the services he rendered to the Yorkshire Philo¬ 
sophical Society for over ten years deserve our grateful thanks. 
He devoted his leisure time to convert the “ waste land ” into a 
botanical and ornamental garden, and in this work he was ably 
assisted by the late sub-curator, Lienry Baines, 
