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to its Rules:—1st, all persons assembled at the present Meet¬ 
ing: 2nd, the Fellows and Members of all Chartered Societies 
in the British Empire: 3rd, the Office-bearers and Members 
of the Council or Managing Committee of all Philosophical So¬ 
cieties : 4th, all Members of such a Society recommended by 
the Council or Committee thereof. They also proposed that 
the amount of the annual subscription should be One Pound, 
and that the composition for it should be Five Pounds; that 
the accounts should be audited annually by Auditors appointed 
by the Meeting itself, and that the Treasurer of the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society should be Treasurer of the Association 
for the ensuing year. 
Resolutions founded on these recommendations, having been 
moved and seconded by Sir Thomas Brisbane, Mr. Robison, 
Mr. Dalton, Dr. Daubeny, the Rev. Mr. Scoresby, Dr. Pearson, 
Mr. Murchison, Mr. Marshall, See. were passed by the Meeting; 
and it was resolved that any further revision which the Rules 
might require should be left to the Committee. 
On the motion of Mr. Murchison, seconded by Sir Thomas 
Brisbane, it was resolved, “ That the Rev. Mr. Hareourt be 
requested to publish for the Association the exposition of its 
objects and plan which lie delivered yesterday.” Mr. Har- 
court, in assenting to the desire of the Meeting, asked permis¬ 
sion to revise what he had said, previous to its publication. 
The business of forming the Association being completed, 
the Chairman proceeded to announce the papers to be read 
that morning on subjects of Science, a report of the contents 
of which, as well as of the other communications made during 
the Session, will be found in the subsequent account of the 
Scientific Transactions. 
On Thursday morning it was stated to the Meeting that the 
Committee had chosen Viscount Milton, the Rev. W. V. Har- 
court, and the Secretaries of the Yorkshire Philosophical So¬ 
ciety, to be the actual President, Vice-President, and Secreta¬ 
ries of the Association ; that the Rev. Dr. Buckland had been 
chosen President elect ; Dr. Brewster and the Rev. Professor 
Whewell, Vice-Presidents elect ; Dr. Daubeny and the Rev. 
Professor Powell, Secretaries elect ; and that the next Meeting 
was appointed to be held at Oxford. 
On Saturday evening, the scientific communications and dis¬ 
cussions having been closed by some remarks of Dr. Brewster, 
in which, adverting to a method of rendering visible the legends 
