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THE YORKSHIRE BOULDER COMMITTEE 

 AND ITS FIRST YEAR'S WORK. 



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

 Hon. Secretary to the Committee. 



The above Committee has now successfully completed the first year 

 of its operations, and has duly presented a report of the same to the 

 Bouider Committee of the British Association. This was approved 

 of and presented by Dr. Crosskey in the Geological Section at the 

 recent meeting of the British Association in Manchester. In the 

 preliminary remarks of the report of the British Association Com- 

 mittee, they state — ' We have been greatly assisted by the formation 

 of a Boulder Committee in connection with the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, of which Professor Green, F.R.S.,is President, and Mr. S. A. 

 Adamson, F.G.S., the Hon. Sec. Were a similar committee organised 

 in each county, the work of the Committee of the Association could 

 soon be brought to a satisfactory conclusion.' As some evidence of 

 the success the Yorkshire Committee has achieved, it may be stated 

 that the Boulder Committee of the British Association has been in 

 existence fifteen years ; in all this period only seven reports had 

 been presenter] upon erratics in Yorkshire. This show^s conclusively 

 how haphazard, or, as may be termed, accidental, the character of 

 the previous work had been. Now, when the work has been 

 properly organised by a Yorkshire Committee, in the first year of its 

 operations seven reports, embracing boulders or groups of boulders 

 in fifteen different localities, have been accepted by the British 

 Association and printed in their report for 1887, whilst several 

 other valuable reports have been deferred, and, m addition, the new 

 reports already received for the second year's work are still more 

 numerous. The Committee desire to thank most warmly the gentle- 

 men who have forwarded reports, for their esteemed and valuable 

 co-operation, and would still further press upon them — and, indeed, 

 upon all Yorkshire geologists and scientific societies — for their con- 

 tinued efforts, until the county is exhaustively reported and the 

 glacial map of Yorkshire completed. As this is the first report of 

 the Committee, it may be well to relate in a brief manner its origin 

 and history before giving details of its accomplished work. A meeting 

 of Yorkshire geologists was held at the Leeds Mechanics' Institution 

 on Nov. 23rd, 1886, when a resolution was passed, establishing 

 a committee to receive reports and conduct observations relative to 

 the erratic blocks of Yorkshire. At a meeting of the Executive of 



Jan. 1888. 



