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SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
Duking the current year three meetings will have been held. 
On April 27th the Members met at Hull, in the Lecture Theatre 
of the Royal Institution. The chair was occupied by A. K. Rollit, 
Esq., L.L.D., D.C.L., F.R.A.S., F.L.S., etc., President of the Hull 
Literary and Philosophical Society. After the meeting the mem- 
bers, accompanied by the Hull Student's Association and the 
Geological Section of the Literary and Philosophical Society, 
proceeded by special train to Withemsea ; Prof. James Geikie, 
F.R.S., accompanied the party and gave a description of the glacial 
clays, &c, forming the coast line. 
The fiftieth anniversary of the first, meeting of the British 
Association at York has been commemorated this year in the city 
which gave it birth, and your council considered that it would be 
advisable to postpone a second meeting until after that of the 
Association. The present meeting is, therefore the second one 
for the present year, and a third will be held in November next, 
at which papers will be read which could not be included in the 
already lengthy list before us. The Society is indebted to Dr. 
Rollit and Mr. Wilson, of Hull, the latter of whom has been good 
enough to accept the office of Local Secretary for that city, and 
to Mr. Tate, the Local Secretary of Bradford, for their kind and 
ready assistance in making arrangements for the respective meet- 
ings ; and also to the Council of the Hull Literary and Philosoph- 
ical Society, and to the Governors of the Grammar School at 
Bradford for the use of their rooms. 
There has been an addition during the past year of twelve 
new members, the total number now standing at 207 of whom 19 
are life members and 188 ordinary members. 
The Society has lost by death two members, viz. : Fairless 
Barber, F.S.A., &c, of Rastrick, and J. Fraser, C.E., &c, of 
Leeds. Both gentlemen were well known in the county and far 
