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RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 
Mr. Branson reported on the analyses of the samples of 
water received from Clapham. 
Reports were received as to the results of the tests intro- 
duced into Gaping Ghyll and Long Kin East, and the procedure 
in future investigations was considered. 
Messrs. F. W. Branson and W. L. Carter were authorised 
to prepare a brief statement of the Clapham experiments to date, 
to be issued to the members of the Committee and to the Press. 
General Meeting and Field Excursion, Clitheroe, May 25th 
and 26th, 1900. 
Chairman : — Mr. Joseph Lomas, F.G.S., of Liverpool. 
May 25th. — An early party visited the noted Crinoid bed in 
the Pimlico quarry. After luncheon the members proceeded by 
wagonette over Waddington Fell to Newton-in-Bowland. Thence 
the valley of the Hodder was traversed to Whitewell. An 
examination was made of fossiliferous black shales in a little 
clough near the Suspension Bridge. The beautiful gorge of the 
Hodder, with its pretty, grotto-like tufa formations, was visited. 
The return journey was taken by Bashall, where a section in the 
great esker was examined. 
The members dined together at the Swan Hotel. After 
dinner the General Meeting was held under the presidency of 
Mr. Joseph Lomas, F.G.S. 
The following new members were elected : — 
Mr. Frederick Justen, F.L.S., London. 
Mr. S. W. Cuttriss, Leeds. 
Mr. John Hoyle Ash worth, Bradford. 
Mr. Arthur W. Cooke, F.C.S., Kirkstall. 
Mr. Richard Murray, Leeds. 
Mr. R. M. Robson, Filey. 
Mr. J. Crow^ther, B.Sc, Halifax. 
Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.G.S., Stoke-on-Trent. 
The meeting heard with the deepest regret of the decease 
of two old and valued members of the Society — Mr. Richard 
