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MINUTES. 
Lord Halifax be requested to preside at Doncaster, or the Hon. 
Secretary make such arrangements as he may be able to hold a meet- 
ing during the month of May, and that papers be accepted from 
Messrs. Cole, Binney, Cash, Vine, and others. 
It was resolved that arrangements be made to secure the attendance 
of some leading geologists at the annual meeting uf the members to 
be held in October, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the society's 
existence, and that the President be requested to preside. 
The Hon. Secretary represented that a sum of money might, 
with advantage, be voted for the purpose of investigating a pre-glacial 
deposit at the foot of an ancient escarpment of the chalk near 
Bridlington, from which portions of the skeleton of an elephant have 
been obtained, whereupon it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. 
Gray, seconded by Mr. Bedford, that the society be recommended to 
vote £10 for this purpose. 
Meeting of the Covncil, at the Museum, Halifax, on Wednesday, 
July 13th, 1887. 
Dr. Wm. Alexander in the chair. 
Present : Messrs. Eddy, Slater, Lamplugh, Adamson, and Davis. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed . 
The Secretary reported that £350 had been invested in tlie 
Halifax Corporation. That the excavation at Bridlington is to begin 
on Monday next, and that Mr. Wormald declined to hand over the 
negatives of photographs issued by the society. 
Resolved that the following account be paid : — 
P. W. Spencer ... ... ... £5 15 11 
General Meeting at the Museum of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society, Halifax, July 13th, 1887. 
Aid. James Booth, F.G.S., occupied the chair, and gave an 
address. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were elected members of the society, 
on the motion of Mr. Adamson, seconded by Mr. Brownridge : — 
Jno. Harrison Bromley, 14, Lodge View, Tong Road, Leeds. 
Rev. Elijah Jackson, Victor Road, Manningham, Bradford. 
Rev, Jno. Howell, Vicar of Ingleby Greenhowe, Northallerton* 
