APPENDIX. 



REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The proceedings of the Geological Section, though not yet con- 

 tinued for a sufficient length of time to afford results deserving a 

 permanent and detailed record, have created an increased activity in 

 the collection of specimens, and of information calculated to illus- 

 trate the geology of the more immediate neighbourhood of Leeds. 

 Mr. Embleton has presented the Museum with a complete suite of 

 specimens of the coal measures sunk through at the Middleton 

 collieries; a number of sections and borings from Mr. T. Bedford 

 and others have been collected and compared : a commencement has 

 been made in ascertaining and laying down upon the map some of 

 the principal lines of fault and out crop of the strata; a bed of shale, 

 sunk through in a newly opened shaft at the Middleton collieries, 

 has furnished many interesting specimens of the teeth, scales, and 

 spines of fishes, and will probably repay the continued search now 

 making for this important class of organic remains. 



The Section has continued to increase in numbers, and the 

 meetings have in general been well attended. 



REPORT OF THE STATISTICAL SECTION. 



The President, in the name of the Section, has pleasure in 

 presenting to the Council of the Society, the First Annual Report of 

 its Proceedings, in accordance with the 4th rule. 



The number of Members at its establishment was eight, at present 

 it is twenty-one. 



Fourteen Meetings have been held, and the following, taken from 

 the minutes of the proceedings, are the subjects which have engaged 

 the attention of the Members, and on which papers have been pre- 

 sented : — 



A Sketch of the Subjects for Statistical Inquiries, — ^by Mr. Hare. 



A Paper of a similar nature, — by James G. Marshall, Esq. 



