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ANNUAL KEPORT FOR 1915. 
The Society has passed successfully through a very trying year. 
Loyal help has been given by such of our members as were so circum- 
stanced that they could spare a little time from the arduous labours 
which have devolved upon so many. The proposed investigation of the 
Yorkshire rivers is of necessity still held over, but the accumulation 
of material relating to the work has gone on, so that there need be no 
delay as soon as a favourable opportunity presents itself. 
It had been hoped that the Bibliography would have been published 
this year, but the great additions which have been found necessary 
have increased the labour of compilation accordingly, and it has now 
reached dimensions which were not anticipated when the Society 
asked Mr. Sheppard to take the matter in hand. These additions will 
enhance its value greatly and we are assured that we may look for 
its early issue. 
The Spring Meeting was held in Leeds on AVednesday, March 17th. 
In the morning Professor Kendall took the members up the Meanwood 
valley for an examination of sections in the Ganister Beds and to study 
the interesting topography of the valley due to the alternation of grits 
and shales. 
In the evening the General Meeting was held in the Philosophical 
Hall, the President being in the chair. 
A very interesting exhibit of maps, memoirs, etc., by William Smith, 
was on view, contributed by Professor Kendall and Mr. Sheppard. 
The latter gave the members a delightful talk upon the work done in 
Yorkshire by William Smith, and the members learned many new facts 
concerning the labours of that great geologist in Yorkshire which had 
been unearthed by Mr. Sheppard. 
This paper will be published in extenso in the next part of the 
Proceedings. 
Many of the members present expressed their appreciation of the 
researches made by Mr. Sheppard into the early records of the Father 
of English Geology." 
