PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
AT THE FIFTY-FIFTH MEETING, HELD IN THE 
COURT-HOUSE, BARNSLEY, ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 1860, 
AT TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON. 
John Spencer Stanhope, Esq., Vice-President, in the 
Chair. 
The following noblemen and gentlemen were elected 
Members of the Society : — 
His Grace the Archbishop of York. 
The Right Hon. Lord Londesborough, Grimston Park. 
Sir John Henry Lowther, Bart., Swillington House. 
Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram, Esq., Temple Newsam. 
James Farrar, Esq., M.P., Ingleborough House, near Settle. 
Edwin Booth, Esq., Mining Engineer, Barnsley. 
John Richardson, Esq., Engineering Surveyor, Barnsley. 
The following Papers were then read : — 
OBSERVATIONS ON COLLIERY VENTILATION. BY RICHARD CARTER, 
ESQ., C.E., OF BARNSLEY. 
It is perhaps necessary that some apology should be offered 
for selecting so direct and practical a question as colliery 
ventilation to form the theme of a discussion in a society like 
the present. No one can feel more forcibly than the author 
of this paper that the question is one which challenges and 
deserves the soundest applications and treatment of practical 
