Vol. XVII.] 
[Part III. 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Edited by W. LOWER CARTER, M.A., F.G.S. 
1911. 
address by the president, 
professor percy fry kendall, m.sc, f.g.s. , 
hon. mem. inst. mining engineers. 
(Delivered Xovember 3rd, 1910). 
The death of our much-lamented President, the late Marquis 
of Ripon, cast upon the Society the necessit}^ for revising the 
polic}^ by which it had been guided in the past, and in view of the 
improbability of obtaining another President combining as he did 
a generous and life-long love of our Science with the distinguished 
attainments of a statesman and man of affairs, it has been 
resolved that for the future the dignity should be conferred upon 
men whose qualifications are based solely upon their devotion 
to the stud}^ of Geolog}'- and their activity in the field of geological 
enquiry, especially in our own county. 
The first duty that devolves upon me is the painful one of 
reciting some of the losses sustained by the Society during the 
past year. 
