JAMES WILLIAM DAVIS. 
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towns and cities of Europe, America, and even Australia, bad been 
received in exchange for our Proceedings. 
In 1889 three meetings were held at Mai ton, Hickleton. near 
Doncaster, and Leeds, at the latter meeting a grant of £5 was voted 
from the funds of the Society to Mr. G. R. Vine, to enable him to 
pursue his researches on the Fossil Polyzoa. 
In 1890 our Hon. Secretary exerted himself successfully in pro- 
moting a subscription for funds to form a Memoral to the late Mr. 
S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., who had held the position of Local Secretary 
of our Society for the Leeds district. The Annual General Meeting 
of the Society was held at Halifax. At the British Association for 
the advancement of science which was held that year in Leeds Mr. 
Davis took an active part in the leadership of the geological excur- 
sions, particularly those to Flamborough and Bridlington. 
In 1891 a united excursion of the members of the Geologists' 
Association, of London, with the members of this Society was made 
to the Yorkshire Coast, and extended from the 3rd to the 8th of 
August : the places of interest visited included Flamborough Head, 
Mr. Mortimer's Museum, Mr. Boynton's LTlrome Collections, Speeton, 
Filey Brig, Scarborough Museum, Castle Hill, Peak, Blea Wyke, 
Cloughton, Gristhorpe, Hackness, Hawsker, Whitby, and Malton. 
The Annual Meeting was held at Leeds. During this year Mr. 
Davis was elected a member of the Council of the Geological Society 
of London. 
The printed records of our Society terminate with the volume 
for 1893, in which the Secretary's report concludes with an 
account of the business of the year 1892. Two meetings 
were held, the first at York, and the second, the Annual 
Meeting, at Leeds, on 14th December, 1892, when Mr. Davis 
strongly urged the claims of the Upper Wharfedale Exploration and 
particularly drew the attention of the Society to a resolution of the 
Council to this effect, viz., " That the Society be recommended to 
undertake the exploration of certain prehistoric remains in Upper 
Wharfedale ; that a special subscription be raised for the purpose." 
This meeting was, I believe, the last General Meeting of our Society 
which our late Hon. Secretary attended. At this time the first pre- 
