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PREFACE TO THE FIRST REPORT. 
great advantage over the last. The Transactions , of which an 
account is given in the Report, were miscellaneous contribu¬ 
tions not expressly designed for the use of this Institution, and 
in consequence they occupy but a small space in the present 
publication. It is a principle of the Association to claim no 
right of property in the papers which it receives; and, with 
the exception of one Essay, which, by leave of the accomplished 
writer, has been printed at length, the remainder of this part 
of the Report consists of abstracts or notices of memoirs which 
will be communicated to the public through other channels. 
A few interspersed memoranda of the occasional discussions 
which followed the reading of the papers, have been inserted, 
chiefly to illustrate the plan of proceeding which wa& pursued 
at the meeting. 
It only remains to be added, that the time which has been 
fixed upon as that on which it will be most convenient for the 
Association to assemble at Oxford, is the 18th day of June, 
1832, 
York, February , 1832, 
