PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
<Df tht SEcst-JUbing of Yorkshire, 
AT THE SEVENTY-SECOND MEETING, HELD IN THE 
LECTURE HALL OF THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, KOTHERHAM, 
ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL loTH, 1868. 
The Right Hon. EARL FITZWILLIAM, Vice-President, 
IX THE CHAIK. 
Earl FiTZWILTJAM, in opening the proceedings remarked 
that this was the first time the Society had met in Rother- 
ham, and he hoped the visit wonld be repeated on some 
future occasion. It was established about thirty years ago, 
the object of its founders being to collect information with 
regard to the Geological formation of the county ; and also 
as to the engineering works which from time to time were 
needful in carrying on the mining operations. It was of 
great importance, said his Lordship, that every little fact of 
this nature should be brought to the knowledge of a Society 
like that, for they would thus be recorded for the benefit of 
the public at large. His Lordship concluded by proposing 
the following gentlemen as members of the Society : — - 
John Guest, Esq., and John Yates, Esq., of Rotherham ; 
H. A. Nicholson, D.Sc, F.G.S, of Keighley; and Rev. C. H. 
Middleton, F.L.S., of Badsworth. 
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