102 NOTES AND NEWS. 
printed in pages 91-95, was taken as read, and after the Excursion- 
programme for 1892 had been announced to the meeting, the 
Chairman called upon Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S., to deliver 
the Presidential Address :—‘‘Some Moot Points in Geological 
Speculation.” Afterwards a vote of thanks was accorded to 
Prof. Green for his presidential services and for his address, on 
the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. J. H. Phillips. 
Votes of thanks were also passed to Mr. Woodall for his services 
in the chair, and to the Scarborough Philosophical and Naturalists’ 
Societies for their co-operation in the meeting, after which the 
assembly dispersed to inspect the excellent and interesting exhibition 
arranged by the Scarborough Societies. 
The entertainment took the form of a Conversazione and Exhibi- 
tion of Local and General Natural History specimens, the most 
interest-absorbing contribution being the unique series of nine eggs 
of the Great Auk, the property of Alderman Champley, of Scarborough. 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
The ‘Q.J.G.S.’ for November 1891 contains a paper by Mr. Alfred Harker, 
eins are aaa =_ on Rocks from the Cross Fell Inlier,’ a copy of which 
lies be 
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he peg ty of the Head of the imago in pases peg, was the ag. 07% - 
a discourse by Prof. L. C. Miall and Mr. A. R. Hammond at the Linnean Soc 
last December. It was illustrated by a series of ‘icratinns with the oxy- Sie 
pambicahs eye gemaanearely 
Among = ee Che of val Geological Society pars the past year 
are Messrs, H. “a Beesto ae “Cheetham m, of Horsforth; W. E. 
Garforth, of Nox rman . How , M.P., of es Senchasees ; A. W. 
Lucas, of Chester ; at W. a Colin, TC. a of Bolto 
At the Annual ee Mectingg of the Geoligical Society on February 19th, 
Mr. W. H. Hudleston, M.A., F.R.S., was elected to the chair of President. 
Mr. Hudleston was President of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union in 1888, aug is 
well known for his work among the Yorkshire ites. he recently is 
Meat of the dpb ia. te I Society’s memoirs contains a fifth iiteuadtt . 
his monograp! he Jurassic Gasteropoda, in which many specimens fro 
Yorkshire and Lincofadkire are described and figured. 
——- pone — 
The annual meeting of the “Br wien Scientific ORR a was _ held 
September 25th, the President (Dr. Monckman) in the chair. ‘The raat 
were elected :—President, 
Mr. W. West, F.L.S., Lecturer on phage Ba Bradford nee ate College 3 
vice-presidents, Mr. J. Monckman, D.Sc., Ir. J. T. Riley, D.Sc. ; treasurer, 
Mr. J. E. Wilson ; council, oe Bennet aig R.M. ia i, ‘Skelton, ES.A.5:, 
Naylor, S. A. Walker, C. Wood, F.C.S., and J: Pi spaying anes 
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