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Having obtained permission from the Directors of the Leeds 
and Manchester Railway, the Council have, by the assistance 
of Mr. Bull, procured a Section of the Cuttings on that 
Railway from Hebden Bridge to the Terminus at Nor- 
manton. A detailed description of the Geological and 
Mineral information thus displayed, will afford materials 
for the labours of a Committee, and may be expected to 
give interest to the subsequent Meetings of the Society. 
In the last Report it was announced that a section of the 
Yorkshire Coal field, from Northowram to Elmsall, was in 
contemplation : considerable progress has been made in the 
survey, and the completion of the undertaking may be 
looked for in the Spring. 
The Council have only farther to report, that in December 
and March last the Society held its meetings for the first 
time in the towns of Doncaster and Halifax ; that in both 
places it was received with the utmost cordiality, and ob- 
tained a considerable accession to its numbers ; and in con- 
clusion, to bespeak from the Members of the Society that 
cordial support and co-operation which can alone enable 
them to accomplish the objects for which they are asso- 
ciated. 
