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Moved by Mr. S. Seal, seconded by Mr. Embleton, and 
carried — "That Captain Bury, of Barnsley, be elected a 
member." 
Moved by the Hon. Secretary, seconded by Mr. Carter, and 
carried — "That Messrs. J. R Dakyns, of Bridlington, and 
Rowland Gascoigne, of Denaby Collieries, be elected 
members." 
Moved by Mr. S. Seal, seconded by Mr. J. Hutchinson, and 
carried — "That Mr. Newman Crossley, of Barnsley, be 
elected a member." 
Moved by Mr. T. Lister, seconded by Mr. J. Hutchinson, and 
carried — "That Messrs. Walter Norton, Denby Dale, and 
John Broadhead, of St. John's Colliery, Norruanton, be 
elected members." 
Moved by the Hon. Secretary, seconded by Mr. S. Seal, and 
carried — "That Mr. Rowland Gascoigne be appointed a 
Local Secretary for Mexbro' district." 
The Chairman addressed the meeting as follows: — He was 
very glad to meet so many members of the Society, and to have the 
honour of presiding on that occasion. He regretted, however, that 
the weather had not been very favourable, but he hoped that those 
who had an opportunity of going down the new pit at 
Worsborough and seeing the Silkstone seam where it was worked 
below the Barnsley seam, had every facility afforded in their 
visit. He was very sorry he had not been able to accompany them, 
owing to having been engaged in county business at Wakefield all 
the morning. In opening the meeting, it was not necessary for 
him to make a lengthy address. There were to be Papers on four 
different subjects, and possibly some gentlemen would desire to ask 
questions upon them. It was quite unnecessary that he should 
dilate on the importance of maintaining the status of the Yorkshire 
Geological and Polytechnic Society. There was perhaps no other 
county in England that presented more varied sections of all the 
geological strata, from the chalk on the east down to the Silurian 
strata, and down to the older strata, which they generally got over 
before reaching the anticlinal which dipped into Lancashire. 
And then there was the commercial importance of all this mineral 
wealth of Yorkshire — the coalfields, the ironfields, the noted flag- 
measures, besides other kinds of stone and lime — which would take 
too long a time to enumerate, but which, as it were, bound together 
the commercial and mining interests with geological research. No 
doubt many of the discoveries of geologists were more of a theoretical 
character, and were chiefly interesting as records of the way in 
which this world had been prepared through countless ages by a 
merciful Creator for the use of those who now inhabited it ; and 
