PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL & POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
ti)t Wit^UMtinoi of Yox^x&l)ixt, 
AT THE SPECIAL MEETING, HELD AT BULL, ON THE 3rD 
AUGUST, 1841. 
In consequence of an invitation from the Yorkshire Agri- 
cultural Society, it was resolved, that a Special Meeting of 
the Society should be held at Hull, on the evening previous 
to the Great Cattle Show of the former Society. In com-^ 
pliance with this resolution, the Society assembled at Hull, 
on Tuesday, the 3rd August. The members of the two 
Societies dined together in the Public-rooms, and then 
adjourned to the Theatre of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society of Hull, which, with the Museum, was kindly placed 
at their disposal. 
At the Evening Meeting, Earl Fitzwilliam in the chair, 
the following paper was read : — 
REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL GEOLOGY OF PART OF THE 
WOLD DISTRICT OF YORKSHIRE, AND OF THE OOLITE IN 
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAVE, &C 
BY THE REV. W. THORP, OF WOMERSLEY. 
Professor Rennie has well said — " Next indeed to the 
" knowledge of what is best to be done in practice, is the 
" knowledge of the reasons why one mode of agriculture is 
" better than another mode. Now these reasons are in fact 
*' the science, and the farmer who does not know a good and 
" satisfactory reason, beyond the use of wont or hap-hazard 
" experience, for adopting certain rotations of crops, for 
