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JAMES WILLIAM DAVIS. 
the chair and was supported by Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., President 
of the Geological Society, London, Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S., Prof. 
L. C. Miall, F.R.S., Prof. N. Bodington, M.A., and other distinguished 
scientific gentlemen, and was attended by most of the geologists of 
our county. 
The Address, which accompanied the presentation, was as 
follows : — 
To James W. Davis, Esq., F.G.S., &c, Chevinedge. 
Dear Sir, — We, the undersigned members of the Yorkshire 
Geological and Polytechnic Society, have much pleasure in presenting 
you with a first-class large compound binocular microscope, with all 
necessary accessories, as a mark of the esteem in which we hold you 
personally, and as some little acknowledgment of the great services 
which you have rendered to the Society as Honorary Secretary and 
Editor of the Annual Proceedings during a period of twelve years ; 
to the ability and zeal which you have shown in this labour of love, 
as well as your personal efforts in generally promoting the welfare of 
the Society, and your uniform courtesy to the members, much of its 
present prosperous condition must be attributed ; and in the hope 
that you may long be spared to continue your labours, and enrich the 
Proceedings by your own valuable researches, 
We subscribe ourselves, 
October, 1887. (Signed) Ripon, President. 
Three meetings were held in 1888, the first one at Leeds, where 
Professor A. H. Green, F.R.S., presided. After this meeting the 
Society had the pleasure of entertaining Professor Green at dinner at 
the Great Northern Hotel, on the occasion of his leaving the Yorkshire 
College to accept the chair of Geology at the University of Oxford. 
The second was a combined meeting and excursion. On August 
29th the members of the Skipton Naturalists' and Scientific Associa- 
tion joined the members of our Society, who then proceeded by 
way of Thorpe to visit Elbolton Cave, afterwards to Burnsall, and 
returned by Barden Tower and Bolton Woods to Skipton. At the 
third meeting, held at Halifax, the Secretary reported that the 
Proceedings and Memoirs of some forty societies situate in various 
