146 In Memonam: Benjamin Holgate, F.G.S. 
He was a Fellow of the Geological Society ; a member of 
the Yorkshire and Leeds Geological Societies; The Leeds 
Naturalists’ Club (of the last two he was a foundation member, 
and a past president) ; and also of the Leeds Co-operative 
Naturalists’ Club ; the last saw him a good deal. 
Mr. Holgate frequently contributed notes dealing with the 
geology of Leeds district to The Naturalist, to the Transactions 
of the Leeds Societies, and two papers were read by him at the 
last meeting of the British Association held at Leeds. 
He was one of those usually described as a ‘ self-educated 
man,’ and certainly his knowledge of the geology and natural 
history of his district enabled him to frequently conduct par- 
ties interested in these subjects. He was just over 77 years 
of age. 
The following is a list of his contributions :— 
Proceedings Yorkshire Geological Society.— The Minerals 
of the Yorkshire Coal-field as applied to the modern manufac- 
ture of Iron,’ 1877 ; ‘Some Physical Properties of Coal,’ 1890 ; 
‘The Mode of Deposition and Properties of the Carboniferous 
Strata of Leeds and its immediate suburbs,’ 1892. 
The Naturalist :— Geology of Grassington,’ 1891; Boul- 
ders at Scarborough,’ and ‘ Geology of Rokeby,’ 1892. 
Transactions of the Leeds Naturalists’ Club and Sctentific 
Association : —‘ Points of Comparison between Limestone, 
Flint, and Iron-stone Nodules’ (1886). 
Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association :— The 
Geology of Leeds’ (part' 1); ‘The Lower Coal Measures of 
Leeds’ and ‘ Notes on the Geology of Bournemouth ’ (part 2) ; 
“Notes on the Lake District ’ and ‘ The Magnesian Limestone 
of Yorkshire’ (part 4); ‘A Long Buried Oak’ (part 6); 
‘Some Examples of Change in Rocks caused by the Permeation 
of Underground Water’ (part 8) ; ‘ A Geological Study in the 
Horsforth Valley’ (part ro) ; ‘ Coal Measure Plants’; ‘ Geol- 
ogy of the Meanwood Valley and District to the North of it’ ; 
and ‘ Some Points of Comparison between Plants of the Present 
and those of the Coal Measures’ (part 11); ‘ Description of 
Plates showing Sections in Coal Measures of Leeds ’ (part 14). 
Report of the British Association (Leeds Meeting), 18g0 :— 
“The Carboniferous Strata of Leeds and its Immediate 
Suburbs,’ and ‘Some Physical Properties of the Coals of the 
Leeds District.’—T.S. 
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Professor T. McKenny Hughes has an interesting paper on ‘ Flints,’ 
in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, recently issued. 
Amongst the contents of the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect 
Society, volume 3, part 16, we notice: ‘ Popular Speech and Standa 
English,’ by Mr. P. Smith, and ‘ Richard Rolle: The Yorkshire Mysti 
by Dr. F. W. Moorman, 
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