secretary's report. 
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which is the highest since 1893, and it is satisfactory to know- 
that all the members now on the roll are in active association 
with the Society. 
The Proceedings, Vol. XIII., Part 2, was issued to the members 
in the month of August, and will, the Editors believe, be found 
equal in interest and value to any preceding issue. Special 
mention may be made of the beautiful series of collotype 
re-productions of Mr. Godfrey Bingley's photographs of the Chalk 
of Flamborough Head, and the Council have much pleasure in 
announcing that they will be followed in 1898 by a series 
illustrating the Middle Oolites of Filey Brigg, also from Mr. 
Bingley's negatives. 
In accordance with a more usual, and it is thought, advisable 
custom, the Editors have dated the proceedings published in 1897 
with the year of issue, instead of dating it a year back as has 
been the custom latterly. This looks apparently, as if the year 
1896 had been missed, but the part dated 1897 contains the 
records of the year 1896, and, under the previous system, would 
have received that date. 
The Proceedings of the Society have been sent, as usual, to 
leading Scientific Societies in various parts of the world, and 
your Council desire to acknowledge their indebtedness to the 
undermentioned Societies for the kind gifts of their publications 
for our library, in exchange for our Proceedings. 
Royal Geological Societj-^ of Cornwall, Penzance. 
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. 
Royal Geographical Society, London. 
British Association, London. 
Geological Society of London. 
Bristol Naturalists' Society. 
Cambridge Philosophical Society. 
Essex Naturalists' Field Club. 
Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Liverpool Geological Association. 
Liverpool Geological Society. 
Manchester Geological Society. 
Manchester Geographical Society. 
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. 
