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The unusual prevalence of fine weather this year has made field work very delightful, and the success of the Society’s Meetings and Excursions has been unusually marked. The interesting investigations of the Lower Carboniferous rocks in Nidderdale and North Derbyshire have stimulated the wider examination of these rocks in Yorkshire by some of our members, which promises to bear fruit in very interesting and valuable results.

The Spring Meeting was held at Leeds, as usual, and was associated with a Field Excursion to Micklefield and Garforth, under the leadership of Mr. Edwin Hawkesworth. At Garforth a visit was paid to the sand pits, to examine the basement sand of the Permian series, and the unconformity with the underlying Middle Coal Measures. The lime quarries at Micklefield were then visited and the party was shown round by Mr. S. Clough, the Manager.

Some of the members by invitation attended Mr. Henry Crowther’s lecture to children of the Leeds Elementary Schools, on “The Wonders of the Sea and Shore”

At the Council Meeting Mr. Joseph Lomas, F.G.S., was appointed Local Secretary for the Liverpool District, and Mr. Albert Wilmore, F.C.S., F.G.S., Local Secretary for the Colne District. Mr. William Simpson, F.G.S., was appointed delegate to the Corresponding Societies’ Committee of the British Association for the York Meeting.

The Council had pleasure in reporting that four of the members of our Society had been appointed officers of Section C of the British Association, viz.:—Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., F.G.S., the President, and ...