secretary's report. 
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the efforts of the Society more especially on the Proceedings, and 
they believe that the members would prefer additional photographs 
to be issued in each volume of the Proceedings, rather than to have 
so much money spent yearly over one enlargement. In order to test 
this feeling the Council have resolved to issue with the Proceedings, 
vol. xiii., pt. i., a fine series of nine views of the Dry Valley of the Aire, 
above Malham Cove, which have generously been placed at the disposal 
of the Society by Mr. Godfrey Bingley. If this experiment is approved 
of by the members the Council will consider the advisability of con- 
tinuing to issue series of views of geological interest year by year, 
with explanatory notes, to be bound up with the current volume of 
the Society's Proceedings. 
Owing to the removal of Mr. Ernest E. Speight, B.A., 
from Yorkshire to Oxford, the work of exploration in Upper 
Wharfedale has had to be discontinued for the present. Three 
trustees, Messrs. J. R. Eddy, J. J. Wilkinson, and E. T. Hartley, were 
appointed by your Council to take charge of the " finds," but there 
^vas considerable difficulty in arranging for their safe custody. Mr. 
Eddy kindly provided a home for the " finds " in an empty cottage 
on the completion of the term of tenancy of Mr. Baxendale's cottage, 
in which they had been left by Mr. Speight, but the reports of the 
trustees and others convinced the Council that immediate steps 
should be taken to place them in some safe and suitable place. The 
Secretary was, accordingly, instructed to call a joint meeting of your 
Council and the Upper Wharfedale Exploration Committee at 
Grassiugton when the whole subject could be carefully considered on 
the spot. In accordance with this resolution the members of the 
two Committees were summoned to meet at Grassington on Saturday, 
October 19th. The morning was spent in an examination of the 
" finds," and in a survey of the sites of exploration. The members 
of the Committees were accompanied by Messrs. Crowther, Hill, and 
Rogers, of Grassington. The Joint Committee then met the Com- 
mittee of the Grassington Mechanics' Institute, and conferred with 
them as to the most suitable location of the " finds." After some 
conference it was unanimously resolved that the results of the exca- 
vations undertaken by Rev. Bailey J. Harker and Mr. Ernest E. 
