SECRETARY S REPORT. 
293 
be empowered to make arrangements for further investigations : — 
Messrs. J. H. Howarth, F.G.S., P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., C. W. 
Fennell, F.G.S., J. A. Bean, F. W. Branson, F.I.C., W. Ackroyd, 
F.I.C., A. R. Dwerryhouse, F.G.S., and W. Lower Carter, M.A., 
F.G.8. (convener). 
During the year 1899 reports had been received of the 
unsatisfactory way in which the finds obtained from the Grass- 
ington Explorations, organised by this Society in 1892, were 
housed, and the great danger there was of their serious injury. 
The Council resolved that, if no suitable and safe locality could 
be provided in Grassington for their reception, the collection 
should be removed to Leeds and placed in the care of the Leeds 
Philosophical and Literary Society. It was subsequently found 
that the Grassington Parish Council w^ere willing to provide a 
suitable place in their hall for the case, and accordingly your 
Council offered the finds to the Parish Council as a gift on the 
conditions that they would have them locked up and properly 
cared for, and would give the Yorkshire Geological and Poly- 
technic Society ready access to them. In reply the Clerk of the 
Grassington Parish Council wrote stating that the case and its 
contents were in a satisfactory condition and under the control 
of the caretaker, and that they would be at our Society's 
pleasure for inspection at any time. 
During the year there have been elected three life members 
and 16 subscribing members, making a total of 19 new 
members for the year. 
On the other hand, we much regret to report the loss of 
several members, some of whom have had a long and honourable 
connection with our Society. At the Clitheroe meeting we had 
to record the decease of Mr. Richard Reynolds, F.G.S., of Leeds, 
who was elected a member of our Society in 1864, had been a 
member of its Council for thirty years, and a Vice-President 
since the year 1894. At the same meeting we received the news 
of the death of Mr. J. McLandsborough, F.G.S., F.R.A.S., of 
Bradford, who had been a member of our Society since 1853. 
Votes of deep regret and sincere sympathy were passed, and the 
