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THE YORKSHIRE BOULDER COMMITTEE 

 AND ITS THIRD YEAR'S WORK. 



S. A. ADAMSON, F.G.S., 

 Hon, Secretary to the Committee. 



The Committee again report with pleasure that an active and 

 profitable year's work has been done to further and report observa- 

 tions upon the Erratic Blocks of Yorkshire. The reports received, 

 after careful examination by the Committee, have been duly 

 forwarded to the British Association Boulder Committee, by whom 

 they have been accepted, and presented at the recent meeting of 

 the British Association at Newcastle. The bulk of the observations 

 are the result of personal visits by various members of the Com- 

 mittee, and it will also be noticed that in two cases accounts are 

 given of visits to well-known blocks, reported as erratics, but which, 

 after careful scrutiny, are proved not to possess that claim. The 

 Committee think it better to include the reports just named, so that 

 these blocks may not be again reported. It will be again noted 

 that the North and East Ridings of our county have received more 

 attention from observers than the West Riding ; it is hoped that 

 during next year (seeing that the meeting of the British Association 

 is to be held in Leeds) our West Riding friends will bestir them- 

 selves, and furnish some good reports for presentation. The Boulder 

 Map of Yorkshire, upon which the position and classification of the 

 various erratics reported are denoted, now displays the practical 

 character of the work of the Committee at a glance. The Com- 

 mittee warmly thank all those valued contributors to their work, and 

 trust that the valuable nature of the work already accomplished, and 

 the recognition it has obtained, will prove an incentive to further 

 efforts to complete, as far as possible, the glacial geology of 

 Yorkshire. 



It may be mentioned that the practical results we have obtained 

 have incited the geologists of Lancashire and Cheshire to form a 

 Boulder Committee; in this matter the members of the Yorkshire 

 Boulder Committee wish their brethren and co-workers every success, 

 and promise every assistance. 



The Secretary (Mr. Adamson, F.G.S., 52, Wellclose Terrace, 

 Leeds) will be most happy to furnish information as to the work and 

 objects of the Committee, and also to supply schedules upon which 

 observations upon erratics may be duly recorded. It is hoped that 



Oct. 1889. 



