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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1915 
It is not thought necessary to give a detailed account of all these- 
excursions ; suffice it to say that the splendid attendance and interest 
shown in these meetings has completely justified the policy of the 
Council and it is not too much to say that nothing better could have 
])een done to quicken the life of the Society at this period. 
A general meeting was held in the evening of Thursday, June 24tli, 
in the Geological Dept. of the University of Leeds, the President being 
in the chair, when the following papers were read : — 
" The Knoll Eegion of Clitheroe, Bowland and Craven," by Dr. A.. 
Vaughan, M.A., F.G.S.. and 
The Mineral Constituents of the Permian Sandstones and Breccias 
of the North of England," by Mr. H. C. Versey, M.Sc. 
In the absence of Dr. Vaughan the former paper was read by the 
Secretary. 
An interesting discussion followed each paper, in which the following 
took part : — The President, Prof. Kendall, Mr. Odling and the Sec- 
retary. 
Members will be interested to learn that the unique collection of 
lantern slides and negatives made by our esteemed member, Mr. Godfrey 
Bingley, has been generously given by him to the University of Leeds, 
and is at present housed in the Geological Dept. of that University. 
They number upwards of 10,000 of each, slides and negatives, and form 
a complete record of the field excursions of the Society for the last 
quarter of a century. There is no need to enlarge upon the value and 
utiHty of such a collection, while their extreme beauty is known to 
a very wide field of geologists, and this Society counts among its 
happiest memories the exhibition of lantern slides made at one of its. 
annual meetings for many years, by Mr. Bingley. 
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