ANNUAL REPORT FOR ibQO. 35 



-counties, as well as with any biolog"ical and general considera- 

 tions that the local observations give rise to. 



The Library continues to increase, mainly by donations and 

 exchanges, and it has been made use of by the members to 

 .a considerable extent. Your Executive have pleasure in stating 

 that a member has been found to undertake the duties of Hon. 

 Librarian, in the person of Mr. John Waddington, of Leeds, 

 who, if elected, would at once undertake the compilation of the 

 ■catalogue, the cost of which Mr. Farrah so generously offered to 

 ■defray. Your officers are on the look-out for suitable rooms in 

 Leeds for the accommodation of the books, the Library having 

 considerably outgrown the accommodation placed at the Union's 

 ■disposal at the Leeds Institute. 



The Sections of the Union have more or less steadily 

 •carried on their work during the year, and as the success of the 

 field excursions entirely depends upon the presence of the 

 Union's best workers in every department, it is to be hoped 

 that members will endeavour to support the arrangements made 

 by the General and Sectional Officers by their presence at as 

 many excursions as possible. 



The Committees of Research have continued their in- 

 vestigations during the year with very satisfactory results. 



The Yorkshire Boulder Committee has continued its 

 ■operations during the year, and its secretary, Mr. J. H. Howarth, 

 F.G.S., reports that several points of exceptional interest have 

 arisen during the year. Shap granite is associated with 

 Eskdale granite at Balby, near Doncaster. Glaciated boulders 

 ■of chalk have been found at Scarborough twenty miles north of 

 the Yorkshire chalk. East coast boulders from Mr. Stather's 

 collection have been submitted by Mr. Kendall to Professor 

 Brogger, of Christiania, who identified some of them, including 

 the Pyroxenite, of Fettveldt, Christianiafjord ; a Soda Syenite, 

 from the country north of Christiania ; a basic rock from 

 Hitterdal ; the Labradorite-porphyrite of Vlos ; rocks from the 

 neighbourhood of Drammen ; and the ' Sparagmit-conglomerat,' 

 a sandstone or g-rit covering a vast area in the high mountainous 

 interior of Scandinavia, north of Christiania. 



It is recommended that the Committee be re-appointed 

 as follows : — Percy F. Kendall, F.G.S., Leeds, Chairman ; 

 J. H. Howarth, F.G.S., Bradford, Hon. Sec. ; J. E. Bedford, 

 F.G.S., Leeds; C. Brownridge, F.G.S., Birkenhead; John 

 Burton, Horbury ; Rev. W. L. Carter, M.A., F.G.S., Hopton ; 

 Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S., Wetwang ; H. H. Corbett, 

 -M.R.C.S., Doncaster; Wm. Gregson, F.G.S., Baldersby ; 



