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THE EARL DE GREY AND RIPON. 
The Buke of Norfolk. 
The Duke of Leeds. 
The Earl of Effingham, 
The Earl of Harewood. 
The Earl of Dartmouth. 
The Earl Fitzwilliam. 
Lord VVharncliffe. 
Lord Londesborough. 
Viscount Halifax. 
Viscount Milton, M.P. 
Henry Briggs, Esq. 
Dr. Wm. Alexander. 
H. C. SoRBY, Esq., F.R.S. 
Henry Holt, Esq. 
Bentley Shaw, Esq. 
Viscount Galway. 
Edward Akroyd, Esq., M.P. 
John Waterhouse, Esq., F.R.S. 
W. B. Beaumont, Esq., M.P. 
E. B, Denison, Esq. 
Lord Houghton. 
John Spencer Stanhope, Esq. 
James Garth Marshall, Esq. 
Thomas Wilson, Esq. 
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Richard Carter, Esq. 
T. W. Embleton, Esq. 
Rev. Dr. Burnett. 
Dr. Scholefield. 
Wm. Chadwick. 
Wm. Sykes Ward, Esq., F.C.S. 
Henry Denny, Esq., A.L.S. 
ponararg Curators. 
J. G. Marshall, Esq., F.G.S. | T. W. Embleton, Esq. 
H. C. Sorby, Esq., Sheffield. 
Henry Briggs, Esq., Wakefield. 
Dr. Alexander, Halifax. 
Dr. Scholefield, Doncaster. 
Bentley Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield. 
Richard Carter, Esq., Barnsley. 
Rev. Dr. Burnett, Bradford. 
Dr. Paley, Ripon. 
The Chairman then called on the Rev. John Stanley Tute 
to read the first Paper. 
ON CERTAIN NATURAL PITS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RIPON. 
BY REV. JOHN STANLEY TUTE, OF HARRINGTON. 
On the north-east side of the city of Ripon, and within a 
rectangular area of rather more than a square mile,* there 
* They are not, however, confined to this area, though the greater number 
occur within it. 
