GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. 
The Quarterly Meeting was held on Thursday, 
December 6th, 1839, at Leeds, in the Hall of the 
Philosophical and Literary Society, and was 
numerously attended by both members and 
strangers. 
The Morning Sitting commenced at eleven o'clock. 
Amongst the gentlemen present we observed — C. J. 
Brandling, Esq., Middleton Lodge ; the Rev. Samuel 
Sharp, Vicar of Wakefield ; Henry Leah, Esq., of 
Byerley ; the Rev. Theo. Barnes, Castleford ; Dr. Carr, 
Knostrop ; the Rev. Thomas Furbank, Bramley ; William 
Sharp, Esq., Bradford ; Edward William Binney, Esq., 
(the Secretary) and J. E. Bowman, Esq., a depu- 
tation from the Manchester Geological Society ; William 
Cooper, Esq., Mount Vernon ; Dr. Wright, Wakefield, 
Thomas Wilson, Esq., the Banks, Barnsley ; T. G. Clayton, 
Esq., Byerley ; Rev. W. Thorp, Womersley ; J. G. Marshall, 
Esq., Headingley ; Henry Hartop, Esq., Hoyland ; Henry 
Briggs, Esq., Overton ; Edward Waud, Esq., Chester Court ; 
T. W. Embleton, Esq., Middleton ; Charles Morton, Esq., 
Darton ; William Bull, Esq., Hostingley House, Rev. 
W. H. Teale ; Andrew Faulds, Esq., Worsborough ; R. D. 
Chantrell, Esq., George Shaw, Esq., John Lapage, Esq., 
Robert Arthington, Esq., Dr. Williamson, Dr. Hunter, J. P. 
Sanderson, Esq,, Anthony Titley, Esq., W. Willock, Esq., 
E. J. Teale, Esq., G. W. Bischoff, Esq., Henry Teal, Esq., 
Thomas Hebden, Esq., Dr. Pyemont Smith, Mr. Bateson, 
