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RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 
Council Meeting, Philosophical Hall, Leeds, 21st March. 1901. 
Chairman : — ^Ir. P. F. Kendall. 
Present : — Messrs. W. Cash, (t. Bingley, A. E. Dwerryhouse, 
E. D. Wellburn, W. Ackroyd, J. J. Wilkinson, C. W. Fennell J. E, 
Bedford, and \V. L. Carter (Hon. Secretary). 
The minutes of the previous Council Meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
Letters of regret for non-attendance were read from ^lessrs. 
R. Law, \V. Gregson, W. Simpson, J. H. Howarth, J. W. Stather, 
G. H. Parke, and F. W. Branson. 
A letter was read from Lord Masham accepting the ofiice of 
Vice-President. 
The Hon. Secretary- reported that he had received an invitation 
from the Council of the British Association to be one of the Secre- 
taries of Section C at the Glasgow meeting, but that he had not been 
able to accept the honour. 
Mr. Bingley announced that a lecture on " The Australian Alps 
by Mr. Stirling, the President of the Victorian Survey, would be 
given on a Tuesday evening in October or November, and invited 
our Society to unite in the arrangements. 
Resolved, that this Society unite with the Leeds Scientific 
Societies on equal terms in the arrangements for the lecture. 
Short reports of the present position of the L'nderground Waters' 
Investigation were made by the Secretary and Mr. Dwerryhouse, 
and it was resolved that the Committee have the right to add the 
names of landowners or others interested in the investigations to 
the Committee. 
The following arrangements for the General Meetings and Field 
Excursions were made : — 
(1) That the first meeting be held in the Lake District, with 
Keswick as the centre, from June 28th to July 2nd, 
with Mr. John Postlethwaite, F.G.S., as leader. 
