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secretary's report. 
Tlie number of members remains the same this year as last. 
The Society has elected an additional eleven members during the 
year, and has lost three by death, one of wliom, Mr. Thomas Lister, 
had been local secretary at Barn.sley for man}- }'ears ; his loss is felt 
very much ; eight members have retired. 
Three meetings, including the present one, have been held 
during the year. The first was at Leeds on June 27tli, at the 
Philosophical Hall, when Professor A. H. Green, F.R.S., occupied the 
chair, and papers were read by the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., Messrs. 
C. E. De Ranee, and Geo. W. Lamplugh. xVfter the meeting the 
Society had the pleasure to entertain Professor Green at dinner at 
the Great Northern Hotel, on the occasion of his leaving the York- 
shire College to accept the Chair of Geology at Oxford University. 
The President of the Society, the ^Iar(juis of Ripon, occupied the 
chair. Amongst those present were Principal Bodington, Professors 
Miall, Smithells, Barr, Lupton, Messrs. De Rance^ 0. Nussey, C. E. 
Bousfield, and others, together with about fifty members of the 
Society. Apologies for unavoidable absence were received from 
Professors Greenwood, Wilhamson and Boyd Dawkins, who were 
detained by a college meeting at Owen's (/ollege, and from Professor 
T, McKenny Hughes, of Cambridge. 
The second was a combined meeting and excursion, and took 
place on Wednesday, August 29th. The members met at Skipton, 
and were joined by the members of the Skipton Naturalists and 
Scientific Association. The party, about forty in number, proceeded 
in conveyances to Thorpe, and visited the Elbolton Cave. Consider- 
able time was taken in its investigation, and a large number of bones 
of men and animals were obtained. The Rev. Mr. Jones, of Embsay, 
a member of the Skipton Society, read a paper on the Recent Dis- 
coveries in the Elbolton Cave, which will be found in the proceed- 
ings of the Society. The Mountain Limestone of the neighbourhood 
is rich in fossils ; many examples were collected. The conveyances 
bore the party thence to Burnsall in Wharfedale, wliere dinner was 
