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RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 
Prof. A. Luptori, F.G.S 
G. H. Parke, F.G.S., F.L.S. 
Thos. Tate, F.G.S. 
David Forsyth, D.Sc, M.A. 
Local Secretaries : 
Barnsley - 
T. W. H. Mitchell. 
Bradford - 
J. E. Wilson. 
Driffield - 
Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A , F.G.S. 
Halifax 
W. Simpson, F.G.S. 
Harrogate - 
R. Peach. 
Hull 
J. W. Stather, F.G.S. 
Huddersfield 
Jos. Field. 
Leeds 
J. H. Howarth, F.G.S. 
Skipton 
J. J. Wilkinson. 
Thirsk - 
W. Gregson, F.G.S. 
Wakefield - 
C. W. Fennell, F.G.S. 
Wensleydale 
W. Home, F.G.S. 
York 
H. M. Platnauer, B.Sc, F.G.S. 
The following resolution of regret at the decease of Professor 
Williamson, F.R.S., was moved by Mr. W. Cash, F.G.S., seconded 
by Mr. T. Hick, A.L.S., and carried :— 
" The Council and Members of the Yorkshire Geological and 
Polytechnic Society desire to express their deep sympathy with Mrs. 
Crawford Williamson and Family on the death of Dr. Wm. Oraw^ford 
Williamson, F.R.S., as well as their own sense of severe loss in this 
the first gap which has occurred in their list of Honorary Members. 
Dr. WilHamson during a long and honourable scientific career of 
considerably more than half a century, devoted to many departments 
of Natural Science, and especially to the study of Fossil Botany, 
won for himself a scientific position and name known and valued 
both at home and abroad ; on the (continent of Europe, in our 
Colonies, and in the United States of America. His magnifi- 
cent and original series of Memoirs on the Carboniferous Flora, 
which adorn the Transactions of the Royal Society, mark the 
climax of his powers, and will ^ ever remain a monument of 
scientific industry and ability, and indeed may be regarded as the 
pioneer of the new methods which have placed the science of Paleeo- 
botany on a certain and true scientific basis. The loss of the kindly, 
