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secretary's report. 
The work of the Society during 1896 has been exceptionally 
successful, the interest of the Meetings having been maintained at a 
high level by a series of interesting comma nications on Yorkshire 
Geology, whilst the exceptionally fine weather made the Field 
Excursions occasions of delightful holiday as well as opportunities 
for interesting Scientific investigations. 
The Spring General Meeting and Field Excursion was held at 
Malham, in Craven, on May 8th and 9th, under the presidency and 
leadership of Mr. Walter Morrison, M.P., one of our Vice-Presidents. 
There was a good muster of the members at Bell Busk Station on 
Friday morning. May 8th, where they were met by Mr. Walter 
Morrison, and conveyed by waggonette to Malham. At Kirkby 
Malham a halt was made to view the interesting Church and its 
ancient registers, and the Yoredale beds exposed in the bed of Kirk 
Gill Beck were examined. Alighting at Malham, the party pro- 
ceeded on foot across the fields to Gordale, and ascended the steep 
path up the magnificent limestone gorge. The way was then taken 
across the moorlands to see an exposure of Silurian beds on the north 
side of the Craven Faults, and thence a rapid march brought the 
party to Tarn House, where they were most hospitably entertained by 
Mr. Morrison. After luncheon the party walked round Malham 
Tarn to the Watersinks, and thence down the Dry Valley to the 
Cove, the leisurely inspection of this interesting relic of the ancient 
denuding work of the Aire being much appreciated. The members 
dined together at the Buck Hotel, Malham, and subsequently the 
General Meeting was held. 
The Field Excursion was continued on Saturday, May 9th, an 
early start being made, under Mr. Morrison's guidance, for the moors 
north of Malham, where a visit was paid to an interesting spring 
called "Clattering Sykes," which throws out fossils. The chief springs 
were dry, but the fossil hunters found congenial work in securing 
specimens of the crinoid plates and other small fossils which were 
