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secretary's report, 1893-94. 
Since the issue of the last Secretarial Report the Society has 
passed through a period of special bereavement, more prominent 
members having been removed by death than, probably, during any 
similar period in the history of the Society. Obituary notices have 
already appeared of two of its most active supporters, the late 
Honorary Secretary, Mr. James W. Davis, F.S.A., F.G.S., and Mr. 
T. W. Embleton, and to these severe losses must be added the names 
of Messrs. William Cheetham, F.G.S., Thomas H. Gray, and the 
Rev. W. C. Lukis, well-known as an antiquarian. During the last 
months other old supporters of geological work in Yorkshire have 
passed away, including Mr. David Swallow, Manager of the Brad- 
ford Gasworks, at the advanced age of eighty-two, Mr. Charles 
Bartholomew, of Ealing, and Sir Chas. Lowther, Baronet. Notwith- 
standing these serious losses the present position of the Society is 
strong and its future hopeful. After preliminary conferences between 
members of the Council and other of the Association's workers, the 
Council met at the end of November, 1892, and unanimously resolved 
to invite the Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Geological Society, 
Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., to undertake the Secretarial 
work of this Association. This invitation was accepted, and Messrs. 
W. Lower Carter and William Cash were appointed joint-editors of 
the Proceedings. To aid them in their work a Consultative Editorial 
Committee was appointed, consisting of Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 
Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.GS., and Mr. H. M. Platnauer, F.G.S., to 
whom any questions that might arise in the publication of the Papers 
could be referred for decision. 
Since the issue of the last Report several changes have been 
made in the list of Local Secretaries, and the following gentle- 
men have been recently appointed by the Council to assist the 
General Secretary in the local organisation of the Society : Messrs. 
J. W. Wilson ^Bradford) ; William Simpson, F.G.S., (Halifax) ; 
J. W. Stather, F.G.S., (Hull) ; Jos. Field (Huddersfield) ; J. H. 
Howarth, F.G.S., (Leeds) ; J. J. Wilkinson (Skipton and Keighley), 
and Chas. W. Fennell, F.G.S., (Wakefield). 
