PROCEEDINGS 



OF THB 



GEOLOGICAL & POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 



AT THE THIRTY-FIEST QUARTERLY MEETING, HELD IN THE 

 EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, BRADFORD, ON WEDNESDAY, 



MARCH 25th, 1846. 



On the motion of Joseph Travis Clay, Esq., seconded 

 by W. S. Ward, Esq., 



The Rev. Dr. Scoresby, F.R.S., Vice-President, was 

 called to the Chair, who commenced the proceedings by 

 observing, that after the existence of the Geological and 

 Polytechnic Society for so many years, it was now hardly 

 necessary to explain very particularly its objects, though it 

 might be useful, perhaps, to remind their friends that the 

 objects of this association were, in a humble respect, analo- 

 gous to the greater institution, the British Association, in 

 many points of its character. The Society travelled abroad 

 from town to town in the West Riding. Its leading objects, 

 too, were similar ; for one was the investigation of Geological 

 subjects connected with the practical working of our mining 

 system in the West Riding — a subject, of course, of great 

 and important interest, and likewise bearing upon the economy 

 and profitable enterprise of our mining operations ; inasmuch 

 as they all knew that it was requisite to bring a scientific 

 knowledge of Geology to bear in this matter, with a view 

 successfully to carry forward this enterprise. The leading 

 object of this Society, then, was to arrive at information on 



