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secretary's report. 
During the past year the Society has lost six members by death. 
Sir Edward Baines, William Aldam, J.P., Edward Hailstone, F.S.A., 
Samuel Taylor Rigge, F.S.A., Edward Harding, and Samuel A. 
Adamson, F.G.S. 
Mr. Adamson was the Local Secretary of this Society for the 
Leeds district, and in a many ways the Society has been indebted to 
his disinterested energy. His early death, at the age of 43, left his 
wife and four children nearly unprovided for ; and at the instance of 
your Honorary Secretary a meeting of representatives of this and 
other Societies with which he had been more or less intimately 
associated was held, with the result that it was decided to appeal 
for funds to form a Memorial to Mr. Adamson, which sliould be 
employed for the benefit of his widow and family. At the present 
time about £175 has been subscribed. 
The Annual General Meeting was held in the Lecture Theatre 
of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Halifax, on Wednesday, 
5th of November, 1890. Mr. Alderman James Booth, Mayor of 
Halifax and a Vice-President of the Society, occupied the chair, and 
the following papers were read : — 
W. E. Garforth, J.P., F.G.S., &c., " On Mining at 100 yards and 
deeper." 
G. R. Vine, Notes on the Polyzoa and Microzoa of the Red Chalk of 
Yorkshire and Norfolk." 
C. E. De Ranee, Assoc. Inst. C.E., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Secretary of the 
Underground Water Committee of the British Association, 
Notes on Borings for Water and Salt in Yorkshire." 
Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., &c., ''On the Opening of the Great 
Tumulus at Duggleby." 
Thomas Tate, F.G.S., "On the so-called Ingleton Granite." 
J. R. Mortimer, *'0n the Pre-history of Fimber." 
J. R. Mortimer, " On the supposed Roman Camp at Octon, near 
Bridlington." 
G. W. Lamplugh, " On the Erratic Boulders of the Yorkshire Coast." 
