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secretary's report, 1899. 
The Society continues in a prosperous condition, and the 
Report of the year's work is of exceptional value and interest. 
The roll now consists of 6 honorary members, 53 life 
members, and 115 subscribing members, a net increase of 9 on 
last year's record. 
It is with deep regret that we have to report the decease 
of four members, Messrs. Ernest Haworth and J. F. lanson, of 
Wakefield ; Mr. Henry Nelson, of Leeds, who had been a member 
for 24 years and died on May 20th at the advanced age of 85 ; 
and the Earl of Wharncliffe, who for 60 years had taken a deep 
interest in the welfare of our Society (having been elected 
a member in 1839), and had served as a Vice-President during 
that period. 
The first General Meeting and Field Excursion for 1899 was 
held at Todmorden on June 7th and 8th. The members were 
met at Todmorden on June 7th by Mr. Robert Law, F.G.S., 
who acted as leader in a very efficient manner, and proceeded by 
wagonette to Summit Inn. A detour was made to the adjoining 
moorland to trace one of the feeders of the Calder to its source. 
Interesting slickensided grit rocks were examined by the way. 
After lunch at Summit Inn the party examined a section in the 
Third Grits overlaid by drift full of foreign boulders in the 
adjoining brickyard. Thence a visit was paid to some interesting 
landslips on the eastern side of Snoddle Hill Reservoir, forming- 
five or six parallel ridges covered with blocks of gritstone. The 
leader then took the party to view good sections in the Third 
Grit beds in the Light Hazel, Long Lees, and Warland Quarries 
He pointed out two thin coal seams between which there is 
a band of calliard rock full of stigmarian rootlets, and which, he 
said, was persistent over a wide area. In each quarry drift beds, 
enclosing Lake District boulders, were found overlying the grit 
rocks. At the Summit Brickyard the nodules and black shales 
were successfully searched, yielding many fossils. Most important 
