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THE MINERAL SPEINGS OF THE GRAND ANTICLINAL OF THE 
WEST RIDING: A FEW CHEMICO-GEOLOGICAL NOTES. BY 
GEO. OLIVER, M.D. (LOND). 
When invited to contribute a paper to the proceedings of this 
Meeting" at Harrog-ate, I very much doubted if I could bring forward 
anything that would be of interest. On thinking over local subjects, 
the mineral waters of this town and the neighbourhood of course 
occurred to me first of all, because they are the most remarkable 
things in our natural history. But, inasmuch as Mr. Fox-Strang- 
ways and Mr. Hayton Davis had promised to take up this subject, 
I hesitated to do so : suspecting, however, that Mr. Fox-Strangways 
— whose geological survey of this district deserves our warmest 
thanks — would probably approach the subject mainly from its 
geological side, and that Mr. Hayton Davis would give you the gist 
of .his extensive chemical knowledge of it, it occurred to me that I 
might take the chemical data along with the geological, and 
direct attention to a few facts relating to the other issues of 
mineral water, which, besides the more important ones of this 
locality, also flow from the lower carboniferous formations in the 
district to the west of Harrogate. I trust, however, that in bring- 
ing forward the following data and the inferences they suggest to 
me, I may look for that indulgence which the amateur may fairly 
claim who has merely given short intervals of leisure to their 
enquiry. 
I will divide the subject of our study into three sections : 
(1) . A brief reminder of the formations and of the disposition 
of them in that portion of the West Riding that extends some 
35 or 40 miles to the west of Harrogate, and in breadth about 10 
miles to the north and south of it. 
(2) . The data pertaining to the issues of mineral water from these 
formations. 
(3) . Inferences and the bearing of data on questions of geological 
interest in respect to the mineralization of the waters. 
