CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Preface . . . . . . . v. 
Chapter I. 
Formation of the Society ; unpublished Records . . I 
Chapter II. 
Some of the Founders of the Society ... 40 
Earl Fitzwilliam, fir^t president. — Thomas Wilson.— Henry 
Holt.— Thomas Pridgin Teale, M.D.— James Garth Marshall. 
— Henry Briggs. — Charles Morton.— Joseph Cliarlesworth : 
senior and junior. 
Chapter HI. 
Proceedings 1839— 1840— Rules .... 65 
Chapter IV. 
Sections to connect the Lancashire with the Yorkshire Coalfield 89 
Chapter V. 
John Phillips, F.R.S 119 
Chapter VI. 
Adam Sedgwick and William Buckland . . . 
Chapter VII. 
The Museum of the Society . . . .150 
Chapter VIII. 
Proceedings 1841—1848 ..... 168 
Chapter IX. 
William Scoresby, the younger, Whalehsher and Clergyman, 
1789—1857 ...... 200 
