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some of these papers by very competent judges not connected with 
the society. Take, for instance, the papers which Mr. Lamplugh 
had read at various times in connection with the geology of the 
district about Bridlington and Flamborough. In these papers that 
careful geological investigator had traced out and correlated the 
glacial deposits of that district, and he had done so so successfully 
that, as he understood, the maps, plans, and sections of his papers 
had been adopted in the report of the General Geological Survey 
prepared by Mr. Clement Reid, and these papers had been made the 
basis of the report upon the geology of that district. That was a 
circumstance which he thought showed that impartial judges 
attached great value to the papers that are now read before the 
society. Again, a very interesting series of papers, of a highly 
technical character, however, he imagined, had been submitted to 
the society by Mr. Vine, on the fossil Polyzoa of the Carboniferous 
Limestones. A paper upon that subject was promised for that day, 
and he believed notice would be taken of it, although Mr. Vine was 
not present. He was a person of so great authority in connection 
with those curious fossil creatures that he had been invited by the 
British Association to prepare a paper on the subject. He had also 
read various papers before the Geological Society of London, and 
that showed that the members of the Yorkshire Geological Societ}^, 
and those who were willing to take part in their proceedings, are 
men whose labours are appreciated, not only in that limited society, 
not only among the scientific men of the great county of Yorkshire, 
but in the country at large. Then again, there had been interest- 
ing papers, he believed, read in connection with the microscopic 
structure of some of the fossil plants found in the coal measures of 
the neighbourhood of Halifax, and he had been himself particularly 
interested in finding that explorations had been carried on at 
Dowkerbottom Cave, in the neighbourhood of Kilnsey, by Mr. 
Poulton, who was assisted by a number of students from the 
University of Oxford. Having conducted these explorations, he had 
been good enough to communicate the results to that society — 
results which he believed were full of interest. But the point in 
regard to these explorations which particularly attracted him was 
