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secretary's report. 
By the kind invitation of Mr. Percy F. Kendall and the 
members of the Glacialists' Association, the members of our Society 
were enabled to take part in an interesting and instructive Field 
Excursion at Easter, to Appleby and District. The party 
assembled at Appleby on Thursday, April 15th. On Good Friday 
a drive was taken to Shap under very watery conditions, but the 
weather cleared up sufficiently to enable a visit to be paid to the 
famous granite quarries, which were examined with much interest. 
A long traverse over the moors, several dykes being examined on 
the way, brought the party to Shap Wells, where a Basement 
Carboniferous conglomerate was found containing pebbles of Shap 
granite. On Saturday, High Cup Nick was visited in a drizzling 
mist, and the Whin Sill carefully examined. On Easter Monday 
the party visited the Upper Stainmoor Pass and a Shap boulder 
was found close to the summit. On Tuesday the interesting sections 
revealed by Swindale Beck, and the quartz-porphyry called ' Dufton 
Granite,' were examined. Altogether the excursion was full of 
interest and valuable information to students of Yorkshire Geology. 
In connection with the meeting of the Sanitary Institute in 
Leeds, on September 14th, the Society was requested to appoint 
two delegates to the Congress. Mr. J. E. Bedford and the Hon. 
Secretary were accordingly elected to represent this Society. 
Several interesting papers were read in the Geological and Chemical 
Section on the relation of the rock-beds to Sanitary Science, and 
a valuable resume of the facts regarding the strata of Yorkshire in 
relation to its water-supply was given by one of our members, 
Mr. Percy F. Kendall, F.G.S. 
At the Annual General Meeting at Wakefield last year, five 
new members were elected, and at the Pateley Bridge meeting ten 
new members were added to the list. We have very regretfully 
to record the loss of three members by death, Mr. E. B. Wheatley 
Balme, J. P., of Cote Hall, Mirfield, who has been a member since 
1875; Mr. Thomas Binns, of Sawley Hall, Ripon; and our lamented 
friend and co-ad jutor Mr. Thomas Tate, F.G.S. With the addition 
of the names of three gentlemen to be submitted to this Annual 
Meeting for election, the roll of membership now stands at 164, 
