New Series.] 
[Part III. 
PAPEEiS 
REA.D EKFOEE THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
1876. 
chairman's address, with observations on the mineral 
aspects of the west-rtding coalfield. by richard 
carter, esq., c.e., f.g.s. 
In addressing this assembly of the members of the West 
Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society, my first agree- 
able duty is, to bid you welcome to Barnsley ; and next to 
congratulate the Society on the reanimation of its latent 
powers, fraught, as I believe them to be, with advantage and 
benefit to the vast and important district with which it is 
identified. Recent meetings of the Society at Halifax and 
Bradford, have afibrded opportunities for explaining the 
interregnum, which has occurred in the ordinary meetings and 
operations of the Society ; but it would border on ingratitude 
and negation of proper esteem for the long- sustained services 
of a most valuable ofiicer, if I did not embrace the present 
opportunity of personally offering a tribute of respect to the 
memory of our late Secretary, Mr. Denny, and an expression 
of the high regard, in which his services to the Society are 
held by members in and around Barnsle}^ 
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