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Silurian without any intervening red conglomerate were noted. 
On Saturday the red conglomerate at Castleton was examined, 
and the sections along Barbon and Barkin Becks were followed 
as far as Short Gill. The Coniston Limestone near Peas Gill 
House was also examined. 
At the General Meeting a resolution of congratulation was 
passed to Professor P. F. Kendall on the award of the Lyell 
Medal by the Geological Society of London, and also to Mr. 
H. Brant wood Maufe who was, in conjunction with Mr. R. G. 
Carruthers, awarded the balance of that fund. An invitation 
was received from the Lord Mayor of Leeds to the PubUc Health 
Congress at Leeds, and Mr. Wm. Simpson was appointed our 
delegate. 
Mr. William Robinson (Chairman) delivered an address 
in which he referred to the important sections of the Red Beds 
in the Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh districts. IVIr. Cosmo 
Johns then introduced a discussion on the red conglomerates 
and their equivalents in other areas, with special reference to 
their age. After an interesting discussion, Mr. R. G. Carruthers, 
of H.M Geological Survey, gave an account of the development 
of Zaphrentis delanouei, a small coral which is found in several 
limestones in the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland, and shows 
modifications from a wide fossula to a parallel fossula ; then 
the fossula becomes restricted at the inner end, and finally the 
septa are merely disjuncted. 
The Summer Excursion was taken to Hayburn Wyke, 
but the weather did not prove very favourable. On June 24th 
the party assembled, and on June 25th the section from Peak 
to Hayburn Wyke was examined The General Meeting was 
held the same evening under the presidency of Mr. G. W. Lamp- 
lugh, F.R.S. (in the absence through illness of Mr. Thomas 
Sheppard, F.G.S.). The Chairman and Mr. J. W. Stather des- 
cribed the local geology, and a conversation followed. A vote 
of sincere regret at Mr. Sheppard's absence was unanimously 
adopted. On June 26th the party went by the shore from 
Cloughton to Hayburn Wyke, examining the excellent sections 
in the Estuarine Beds with their limestone bands. On June 
28th a smaller party drove to Hackness and by way of Forge 
Valley to Ayton, many fossiliferous sections being visited. 
