PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
AT THE SIXTIETH MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, HELD 
IN THE TOWN HALL, RIPON, ON THURSDAY, APRIL 1ST, 1864, 
AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. 
Dr. Paley having been called to the Chair, read a letter 
from the noble President, the Earl de Grey and Eipon, 
who was to have presided on the occasion, explaining that 
in consequence of his having received a telegram from London, 
he was obliged to leave Studley that morning, in order to be 
present at a Cabinet Council Meeting the next day. 
The Chairman, after briefly stating the origin and objects 
of the Society (on this its first meeting in Ripon), announced 
the following gentlemen for election as Members of the 
Society : — 
Rev. W. C. Lukis, M.A., F.S.A., Wath Rectory. 
Rev. J. C. Atkinson, Danby, near York. 
William Ewart Gott, Esq., "Wyther Grange, Leeds. 
John Rhodes, Esq., Leeds. 
Samuel Jackson, Esq., Leeds. 
Richard Reynolds, Esq., Leeds. 
Miles Staveley, Esq., Slenningford, near Ripon. 
Captain Pattison, St. Agnesgate, Ripon. 
Charles Husband, Esq., Ripon. 
