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FIRST REPORT— 1831 . 
tended by the Southern, as on this occasion by the Northern 
Societies. 
“When the time appointed for the Meeting drew nearer, the 
Committee of Management put into circulation another notice, 
specifying more particularly the nature of the regulations which 
they proposed to adopt. The second circular notice was as 
follows: — 
“GENERAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING AT YORK. 
“ It is requested that persons proposing to attend the Meeting will 
give notice of their intention to the Secretaries of the Yorkshire Philo¬ 
sophical Society. 
“ Models of Inventions, Specimens of Natural and Artificial Products, 
to be exhibited at the Meeting, Instruments or Drawings to illustrate 
any communication, and Materials for Experiments, will be received by 
the Secretaries, and may be transmitted to them previous to the Meet¬ 
ing- 
“It is also desirable that Memoirs intended to be read, or a short 
statement of their contents, should be sent beforehand, in order to their 
being registered ; and that any Memoir which may be too detailed to 
admit of being read at length, should be accompanied by an abstract of 
its principal contents. 
“ On Monday, the 26th inst., the Managing Committee will receive, 
at the Museum, the names of Persons intending to be present; and 
will deliver Tickets for the Morning and Evening Meetings, and Din¬ 
ners, and references for Lodgings. The Committee will think it right 
to pay regard to oeconomy, as well as convenience, in these arrange¬ 
ments*. 
“ The Apartments of the Society will be opened on Monday Evening; 
and the first Morning Meeting for scientific purposes will be on Tues¬ 
day, the 27th, at Twelve o’clock. 
“ Yorkshire Museum , 
Sept. 7, 1831. 
“To this account of the regulations of the Committee, it 
only remained to be added, that the number of scientific papers 
to be brought forward, was so considerable, as to demand the 
employment of the evenings as well as the mornings of the week, 
and the Committee recommended that the communications of 
the least abstract nature should be allotted to the evening Meet- 
* On Tuesday a public dinner was provided at Twelve Shillings a Ticket ; 
on the other days, during the session, ordinaries at from Five to Seven Shillings 
a head: venison, game, and fruit being contributed by Earl Fitzwilliam, the 
Earl of Carlisle, Paul Beilby Thompson, Esq. and Richard John Thompson, Esq. 
The Archbishop of York gave a public dinner to the Members of the Associa¬ 
tion on Friday. The Evening refreshments were furnished by a subscription 
among the Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
