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Owing to peculiar circumstances attendant upon this meet- 

 ing, the Treasurer is unable to present a detailed account of 

 the receipts and expenditure : it will, however, be immediately 

 submitted to the Auditors, and printed in the forthcoming 

 Report. 



During the past year, the quarterly meetings have been 

 held as follows : viz., in December, at Huddersfield ; in 

 March, at Sheffield ; and in June, at Wakefield ; at all of 

 which communications of interest and importance have been 

 read ; many of them have been of great practical value, and 

 afford an additional proof of the benefits resulting from a 

 society of this nature, in a district where so large a popula- 

 tion is dependent upon the successful prosecution of those 

 arts which more immediately come under its cognizance. 

 The titles of the papers are as under : — 



At the annual meeting, in September — Illustrations of 

 Yorkshire Geology," by the Rev. W. Thorp. — " An Eluci- 

 dation of the Geometrical principles of Gothic Architecture, 

 No. 2," by W. Wallen, Esq., F.S.A.— " On the preservation 

 of Railway Sections, and of accounts of Borings, Sinkings, 

 &c., in elucidation of the measures recently taken by the 

 British Association," by Thos. Sopwith, Esq., F.G.S. 



December. — " Observations on the Yorkshire Drift and 

 Gravel," by J. T. Clay, Esq " On the data for a com- 

 parison between the heat yielded by coke and by coal," by 

 W. West, Esq " An Elucidation of the Geometrical prin- 

 ciples of Gothic Architecture, No. 3," by W. Wallen, Esq., 

 F.S.A. 



March. — *' On the use of wire rope as a substitute for 

 hempen rope, on railways and in mining," by Charles Mor- 

 ton, Esq. — On Fossil Footsteps in the Carboniferous 

 System," by Mr. W. Lee, Sheffield.—'' On the evidence of 

 the former existence of Glaciers in Great Britain," by Thos. 

 Sopwith, Esq., F.G.S. 



