PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
0i flic EHcst ttitfng of jgwfcgijtre, 
AT THE FIFTY- EIGHTH (ANNUAL) MEETING, HELD IN 
ST. GEORGE'S HALL, BRADFORD, ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19'i'H, 1802, 
AT TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON. 
Samuel Baines, Esq., in the Chair. 
The Chairman having read a letter from the Rev. Dr. 
Burnet, Vicar of Bradford, who was to have occupied the 
Chair, expressing his regret at his inability from indisposition 
to attend the Meeting, and intimating his desire to be 
enrolled as a member of the Society, the following gentlemen 
were unanimously elected as members : — The Rev. Dr. 
Burnet, Vicar of Bradford ; George Ellison, Esq., Birken- 
shaw ; Henry Edwards, Esq., M.P., Pye-Nest, Halifax ; 
C. H. Binstead, Esq., C.E., Wakefield. 
The following noblemen and gentlemen were appointed as 
the Officers and Council of the Society for the ensuing year. 
THE EAKL DE GREY AND RIPON. 
The Duke oe Leeds. 
The Earl of Effingham. 
The Earl of Dartmouth. 
Earl Fitzwilliam. 
Lord Wharxcliffe. 
Lord Londesborough. 
Viscount Galway. 
Viscount Milton. 
Rt. Hon. Sir C. Wood, M.P., Bart. 
Edward Akroyd, Esq. 
John Waterhouse, Esq., F.R.S. 
W. B. Beaumont, Esq., M.P. 
E. B. Denison, Esq. 
Wm. Beckett, Esq. 
Lord Houghton. 
J. Spencer Stanhope, Esq. 
G. Wentworth, Esq. 
J. G. Marshall, Esq. 
Thos. AYilson, Esq. 
