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FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY : UNPUBLISHED RECORDS. 
IX. — That at the Meetings, each Member be allowed to intro- 
duce one or more strangers. 
X. — That the following Gentlemen be elected Honorary Mem- 
bers : — 
Professor Phillips, Dr. Smith. 
That the above Rules be advertised in the Leeds Mercury and 
Intelligencer, the Sheffield Mercur}^ and Independent, and that they 
be printed and circulated, a.nd that the parties addressed be requested 
to signify their wishes, as to becoming ]\Iembers, to the Secretary, 
Banks, near Barnsley. 
These rules were printed and issued with the following circular to 
the gentry, colliery proprietors and others who were considered desir- 
able as members of the Society. 
Banks, near Barnsley, 
IGth December, 1837. 
I beg to inclose you a Copy of the Rules of " The Geological 
Society of the West-Riding of Yorkshire," which were agreed 
to at a ]\Ieeting of Gentlemen interested in the subject, on the 14th 
instant. Allow me to add, that the objects proposed are highly 
desirable, and such as can hardly be effected in any other way. The 
want of accurate information respecting the Yorkshire Coal-Field, 
has long been felt by the scientific and the practical man : before this 
can be satisfactorily supplied, a mass of minute detail must be 
collected, which no individual could obtain, but wdiich may be easily 
collected by a society that embraces among its members, a number 
of persons engaged in the working of the minerals in every part of 
the district. It will only be necessar}^ for the hand of Science to 
point out the most useful field of inquiry, and a number of pioneers 
will be immediately at work to make straight her paths. The 
society may also congratulate itself on having amongst its members 
a distinguished geologist, whose exertions in the field of Yorkshire 
Geology are so untiring, and than whom none could be more 
competent to methodise the information that may be accumulated. 
I shall feel obliged by your informing me if I may add your 
name to the list of Members of the Society, and am 
Yours respectfully, 
Thomas Wilson. 
