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SCIENTIFIC TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE MEETING. 
MONDAY EVENING. 
Mr* Phillips, one of the Secretaries of the Yorkshire Philo¬ 
sophical Society, delivered an extemporaneous account of the 
most remarkable phenomena in the Geology of Yorkshire, il¬ 
lustrated by drawings and specimens selected from the Museum, 
and contributed by the visitors to the Meeting. 
He observed, that though the principal design in opening the 
Museum that evening was to promote mutual acquaintance and 
friendly intercourse among those who were soon to engage in 
more important scientific labours, yet it was thought conducive 
to these objects that some observations should be offered by 
him from the Lecture Table, on the geological relations of the 
County in which they were assembled. In attempting, there¬ 
fore, a rapid sketch of some of the more prominent and pecu¬ 
liar features in the Geology of Yorkshire, he was influenced 
by a natural desire to call the attention of the eminent indivi¬ 
duals now assembled in York to the ph am omen a most worthy 
of observation in passing through the County. He should 
thus have the opportunity of illustrating the value of some re¬ 
markable specimens which within a few hours had arrived for 
the inspection of the Meeting, and offer the most appropriate 
welcome which the City and County of York, and the Institu¬ 
tion they had founded for the advancement of science, could 
give to those who now came amongst them to lay the basis of a 
wide Association for the same important purpose. 
The points embraced in the continuation of Mr. Phillips’s 
address were the following :— 
1. The peculiar character of the Carboniferous and Oolitic 
systems in Yorkshire,—-both of these great systems of Calca¬ 
reous Rocks being here diversified by large interpolations of 
sandy and argillaceous strata, with thin seams of Coal, and re- 
