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secretary's report. 
who had been a member of the Society since 1879, and of the 
Kev. John Hawell, M.A., F.G.S. (Ingleby Greenhow). who had 
been a member since 1887, and for some years the Local Secretary 
for the Middlesbrough district. Two new members were elected. 
A paper on " The Geological History of the Don River-system " 
was read by the Hon. Secretary, and followed by a vigorous 
discussion in which Professor P. F. Kendall, Messrs. E. Hawkes- 
worth, W. Hemingway, Cosmo Johns, and the Chairman took 
l^art. Mr. H. Culpin communicated a paper on " A Fault in 
the Magnesian Limestone near Cusworth," and the members 
of the Barnsley Naturalists' Field Club expressed their pleasure 
at having been invited to take part in the meeting and dis- 
cussion. The meeting concluded with the usual votes of thanks. 
On Saturday, July 9th, a smaU party drove to Stairfoot, 
Wombwell, and Wentworth to examine three of the valleys con- 
sidered by Mr. Carter to be lines of glacier-lake overflow, owing 
to the damming of the Dearne by a glacier blocking up Frickley 
Gorge. 
The membership of the Society (November 3rd, 1904) is 
186, an advance of one on last year's total, eight new members 
having joined, five resigned, and two, Mr. J. B. Dewhurst and 
Rev. John Hawell, liaving been lost by death. 
The Rev. W. Johnson, of York, was appointed delegate 
to the British Association (Cambridge meeting). 
A report was received from the Grassington Parish Council — 
that the finds excavated on Grassington Moor were in the safe 
custody of the Council, and that Mr. Crowther, the Curator, 
had arranged the specimens and repaired the cases so that they 
could be consulted easily- hj the public. 
The Council have selected the following localities for next 
year's General Meetings and Field Excursions : — 
(1) Leeds, in February. 
(2) Louth (Lincolnshire) for the study of the Chalk, 
Kimeridge Clay, Neocomians, and glacial deposits. 
(3) S.W. Scotland, for the examination of the Galloway 
granites and their associated rocks. 
(4) Annual Meeting at Wakefield. 
