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Harrogate, and one at Pontefract. The feature of the Harrogate 
meeting was a week's excursion in conjunction with the Geologists' 
Association of London, under the guidance of Mr. Huddleston, 
M.A., F.R.S., and Mr. Davis, when the geological features of interest 
in the neighbourhood of Harrogate, Knaresbro' and Plumpton, 
Skipton, Bolton Abbey, Malham, Gordale, Victoria Cave, Settle, 
Giggleswick, Clapham, Norber, and Horton in Ribblesdale were 
explored. 
The Society's meetings in 1883 were held at Hull, Leeds, Ripon, 
and Halifax ; the Hull meeting comprised a three days' excursion to 
Kilnsea, Spurn Point, Hornsea, and Skipsea. The examination of an 
ancient lake-dwelling was the chief point of interest, which is 
admirably described in a communication thereon by Mr. Davis in 
our Proceedings for that year. 
Leeds and Harrogate were the centres at which the 1884 
meetings were held. 1885 was marked by three meetings; held at 
Malton, York, and Leeds. 
An excursion to Leyburn in Wensleydale, a meeting at Barnsley, 
and the Annual Meeting at Wakefield were held in 1886. 
At the first General Meeting of 1887, held at Halifax, at the 
Hon. See's instigation a sum of Ten Pounds was devoted to the 
purpose of investigating a preglacial deposit near Bridlington, from 
which portions of a skeleton of Elephas had been obtained, the super- 
intendence of the necessary excavation being entrusted to Messrs. 
Davis, Lamplugh, and Boynton. 
During the summer an excursion was organised to Bridlington 
Quay, Sewerby, Speeton, Bempton, and Flamborough. 
1887 was the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Society 
and was celebrated by a Jubilee Meeting, which was held at the Town 
Hall, Ripon, on Saturday, the 22nd October, when the members of 
our Society expressed their high appreciation of the valuable and 
disinterested services rendered for many years by their Hon. Secretary 
by presenting to him a handsome Binocular Microscope, along with 
the accessory appliances suitable to the proper equipment of a 
geological worker. 
The President, the Marquis of Ripon, K.G., Ll.D., &c. occupied 
