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secretary's report, 1903. 
During the year the affairs of the Society have gone on 
prosperously, and some satisfactorj^ work has been accompHshed. 
The First General Meeting was held at Leeds, and was 
associated with a visit to the Leeds Museum to hear a Lecture 
by Mr. Henry Crowther, F.R.M.S., to children of the elementary 
schools on " The Marvels of Bird Life." A Field Excursion 
was also taken to the Meanwood Valley under the leadership 
of the Hon. Secretary, when the Elland Flagstones were ex- 
amined in the Scott Hall quarries at Potternewton, and the 
Ganister Beds at Messrs. B. Rowley & Co.'s quarry on Meanwood 
Road. In the latter a mid-valley thrust fault was well shown, 
and an interesting deposit of stony clay overlying the Ganister 
beds was examined. 
At the General Meeting, under the presidency of Mr. James 
E. Bedford, F.G.S., papers were read by Messrs. H. B. Muff, B.A., 
F. G.S., and Albert Jowett, B.Sc, on " The Glaciation of the 
Keighley and Bradford District ; " and on " The Faulting of 
the Ganister Beds in the Meanwood Valley and the Associated 
Stony Clay," by the Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S. The 
papers were followed by vigorous discussions, which were con- 
tinued to a late hour. 
The Second General Meeting and Field Excursion were 
held at Horton-in-Ribblesdale, on April 24th and 25th. On 
Friday, April 24th, Mr. J. H. Howarth, F.G.S. , was the leader, 
and conducted the party to the Carboniferous Limestone quarry 
near Horton Station, where the Lower Carboniferous beds were 
well exposed, and the underlying slates and grits seen. A 
traverse was then made to Crag Hill, where the Coniston grits 
were seen thrown up by an anticlinal. The associated beds 
of the Coniston Limestone were searched for fossils, but few 
were found, including a few fragments of trilobites and corals. 
The party then continued their route to Arco Wood quarries, 
where splendid sections of the junction of the Silurian grits 
and slates, with the basement beds of the Carboniferous Lime- 
stone were seen. At this point the basement conglomerate is 
entirely absent. 
