William Vernon Harcourt and John Phillips1 to Faraday   12 July 18312

Sir,

The Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society having received information 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 arrangements 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 possible 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 Museum 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.

1
John Phillips (1800-1877, DSB). Keeper of the York Museum, 1825-1840.
2
See Morrell and Thackray (1981), 545 for confirmation that Faraday was sent this circular. He declined this invitation to attend what became the first meeting of the British Association. See letter 507.

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