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RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 
The minutes of the previous General Meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The following new member was elected : — H. Mainwaring 
Holt, M.R.C.S., Medical Officer of Health, Malton. 
An address was given by Sir Charles Strickland, Bart., on 
the Coralline Oolite of the neighbourhood of Malton. 
A paper on "The So-called British Habitations on Danby 
North Moor," by Mr. J. R. Mortimer, was read by the Rev. E. 
Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S. 
Papers on " The Distribution of Moorlands in the East of 
Yorkshire, as explained by the Glacial History of the County," 
and on " Brunanburh," Avere read by the Rev. E. Maule Cole. 
Various points in the papers w^ere discussed by Messrs. Hawell, 
Carter, Slater, Robinson, Stather, and Holt. The Rev. E. Maule 
Cole replied. 
A vote of respectful condolence with the family of the late 
Mr. James Spencer, of Halifax, deceased July 9th, 1898, was passed. 
Mr. Spencer's careful and industrious labours, especially in the 
investigation of the Halifax Coal Measures, were alluded to by 
several of the members. 
A vote of thanks to the Chairman, the Leader, and the 
Readers of Papers, was passed unanimously. 
On July 16th the party visited the quarries of Coralline 
Oolite, at Settrington and North Grimston, under the guidance 
of the Rev. E. Maule Cole. 
Council Meeting^ Philosophical Hall, Leeds, September 29th, 
1898. 
Chairman : — Mr. Godfrey Bingley. 
Present : — Messrs. J. T. Atkinson, W. Cash, H. Crowther, 
J. J. Wilkinson, P. F. Kendall, F. W. Branson, J. E. Bedford, 
and W. L. Carter (Hon. Sec). 
The minutes of the previous Council Meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
