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FIRST REPORT- 1831. 
“ Fully concurring in the utility of such objects, our Society 
cordially embraced the proposal which was made to us, that 
the first Meeting should be held in these apartments—happy if 
the accommodation which we have to offer could be made ser¬ 
viceable to a purpose of so much public interest, and not in¬ 
sensible, Gentlemen, to the honour and advantage which the 
presence of so distinguished an assembly would confer upon our 
own Institution. 
“ In conformity also with the express desire of the promoters 
of the Meeting, we undertook to make all the arrangements 
for it, and to prepare the plan of a permanent Association. I 
will request the Secretary of the Committee of Management to 
state, in the first place, what arrangements were made, and will 
afterwards proceed to give an account of the plan which I have 
to offer to your consideration.” 
Mr. Phillips, Secretary of the Society and of the Committee 
of Management, made the following statement: 
“ The Committee, Gentlemen, being of opinion that the invi¬ 
tations to this preliminary Meeting should be co-extensive with 
whatever desire there might be in the country to promote the 
objects of Science, drew up in the first instance a circular 
letter inviting the attendance of all persons interested in scien¬ 
tific pursuits, which, in case any one who is here present should 
not have received it, it may be proper for me to read: 
“ Sir, 
“ The Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society having 
received intimation from men of scientific eminence in various parts 
of the kingdom, of a general wish that a Meeting of the Friends of 
Science should be held at York during the last week in September 
next, we are directed to announce that the Society has offered the use 
of its apartments for the accommodation of the Meeting, and that ar¬ 
rangements will be made for the personal convenience of those who may 
attend it. It will greatly facilitate these arrangements, if all who intend 
to come to the Meeting, would signify their intention as early as pos¬ 
sible to the Secretaries. 
“ The apartments, which the Yorkshire Philosophical Society has 
to offer for the use of the Meeting, consist of a Theatre, which affords 
seats for about three hundred persons, five rooms containing the Mu¬ 
seum of Natural History, a Library, Laboratory, and Council Room. 
“ All persons interested in scientific pursuits are admissible to the 
Meeting. 
“ WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, Vice-President. 
JOHN PHILLIPS, Secretary. 
“ Yorkshire Museum , York , 
July 12, 1831. 
