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secretary's report. 
through the Secretary of the B.A. Committee for the 
Investigation of the Underground Waters of Craven ; 
and that the complete report, fully illustrated, be pub- 
lished in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological 
and Polytechnic Societ3\ 
In reply to these resolutions the Sub-Committee received 
very kind communications from Professor W. W. Watts, M.A., 
F.G.S., the Chairman of the B.A. Committee, agreeing to the 
suggestions of the Sub-Committee, and promising very cordial 
co-operation in the carrying out of the scheme of further 
investigations. 
Several meetings of the Sub-Committee were held for the 
drafting of the final report on the Malham investigations, which 
was issued with the Proceedings, Yol. XIY., Part I., fully 
illustrated. 
The Council tender their heartiest thanks to the members 
of this Sub-Coinmittee, who, at a considerable expenditure of 
time and thought, have so successfully completed the record of 
these interesting investigations. 
At the Spring Council Meeting the correspondence between 
the Malhara Sub-Committee and Professor W^atts w^as reported 
on, and the grant of £40 by the Dover Meeting of the British 
Association was announced. The Council resolved that the work 
of investigating the underground waters of Ingleborough should 
be commenced forthwith, the problem being tackled first from 
the Clapham side, and the investigations to commence with 
Gaping Ghyll. 
A large and representative Committee was appointed to have 
charge of this work in conjunction with the Committee appointed 
by the British Association, all of whose members were elected on 
the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society's Committee. 
The followino' o-entlemen were elected to serve on this Com- 
mittee : — Messrs. E. Calvert (Buxton), J. W. Tate (Ingleton), 
J. A. Farrer, J.P. (Clapham), J. A. Bean, C. W. Fennell, F.G.S. 
(Wakefield), W. Ackroyd, F.I.C., J. H. Howarth, F.G.S., W. 
Simpson, F.G.S. (Halifax), G. Bingley, F. W. Branson, F.I.C., 
