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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1911. 
The interest of the members in the affairs of the Society has 
not diminished, and another good year's ^^ork can be recorded. 
The pubUcations of the Society continue to maintain their high 
standard. In addition to the part of the Proceedings which is 
issued annually the Council decided to undertake the publication 
of the Bibliography of Yorkshire Geology by the late Mr. Fox- 
Strangways. They were fortunate in enlisting the services, as 
special Editor, of Mr. T. Sheppard, who has undertaken to make 
the necessary additions and to complete the work up to the 
end of 1911. It is hoped to issue the volume early in 1912. 
The membership of tlie Society shows a slight decrease, ])ut it 
still stands at the satisfactory figure of 198. 
The opening Meeting and Excursion was held in Leeds on 
Thursday, March 9th. The morning Excursion was conducted 
to the Roundwood (■oUiery (near Wakefield) to examine the 
variations in the Cannel Seam, and was well attended. The 
General Meeting was held in the Hotel Metropole. Leeds, at 7.0 
p.m., under the presidency of Prof. P. F. Kendall. After the 
transaction of the formal business, a paper on " The SheUy Moraine 
of the Sef Strom Glacier and other Spitzbergen Phenomena 
illustrative of British Glacial Conditions " was read by Mr. G. W. 
Lamplugh, F.R.S., F.G.S. The paper was followed by an 
animated discussion. A paper " On the Thickness of the Car- 
boniferous Limestone South of the Craven Faults " was then read 
by Dr. A. Wilmore, F.G.S. , and afterwards discussed. Both 
papers have been published in the Proceedings. 
The Easter Meeting and Excursion was held in Scarborough, 
and attracted a large attendance. On the Friday, a large party 
left Scarborough by the Seamer Road for Peacock's Quarry 
(Cornbrash), Stone Haggs Quarry (Lower Calcareous Grit) amd 
then along the old road to other quarries in the Coralline Oolite 
and Coral Rag, returning via Deepdale and Ohver's Mount. 
On Saturday, Cloughton was visited, and an examination of 
the Plant Bed and other fossiliferous sections at the Wyke, and 
the Grey Limestone at Hundale Point was made. The General 
Meeting was held in the Pavilion Hotel, Scarborough, the head- 
quarters during the meeting, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh taking the 
chair in the unavoidable absence of the President. The chairman 
