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SECRETARY S REPORT. 
The Summer General Meeting and Field Excursion of the 
Society was held at Filey, on Thursday and Friday, June 27th and 
28th. On Thursday the members attempted to carry out the pro- 
gramme, which included the examination of the coast from Filey 
Brigg to Gristhorpe Bay, but a heavy thunderstorm which broke 
over Filey about noon rendered this almost impossible, and interfered 
much witli the comfort of the members. Most of the time not spent 
under shelter was devoted to the examination of the Brigg, but an 
entei-prising party, under the leadership of Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S., 
succeeded in getting as far as Gristliorpe Bay. On Friday, June 
28th, the party proceeded along the shore from Filey to Speeton, 
examining the drift deposits and also the Neocomian beds and the 
Lower Chalk. After ascending Speeton Gap and inspecting the 
moraine on the summit of the cliff, the party returned to Filey by 
train. In the evening the members dined together at the Crescent 
Hotel, Filey, under the presidency of R. H. Tiddeman, Esq., M.A., 
F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England. After dinner the 
General Meeting was held which was of a conversational character, 
various points of interest in the geology of the district being touched 
upon by the Chairman, Messrs. Stather, Mortimer, Walton, and 
Carter. 
On Saturday, June 29th, the members joined the Yorkshire 
Naturalists' Union Excursion to Flamborough. The route taken was 
from Bempton Station to the cliffs, and along the cliff path to North 
Landing and the Lighthouse. The chief points of interest were the 
fine contortions at Old Dor and the antics of the guillemots and 
other sea birds, the splendid examples of marine denudation at 
Thornwick Bay and North Landing, and the interesting blow-hole, 
and glacial beds under the Lighthouse. 
Early in the year a fine photograph of the denuded boulder-clay 
of Carr Naze, Filey, from a negative kindly lent by Mr. Godfrey 
Bingley, of Leeds, was issued to the memberS; together with a 
description of the locality by Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S. 
Vol. xii. part v. of our Proceedings also issued during the summer, 
and was illustrated by an unusually large number of excellent plates. 
In the opinion of the Council it will be advantageous to concentrate 
