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SECTIONS TO CONNECT THE LANCASHIRE 
1. Tliat Messrs. Morton and Embleton be requested to prepare 
a report on the scales most suitable for plans, sections, and maps, 
both for record and publication, that they communicate it to the 
Manchester Geological Society, and report to the general meeting 
at Leeds. 
2. That the same gentlemen, together with the Rev. W. Thorp, 
Mr. Hartop, and Mr. Holt, be a committee to report on the best line 
of section on the eastern side of the hills, and to prepare a plan of 
operations, in conjunction with the Manchester Society, which may 
be laid before the next meeting. 
Mr. Charles Morton to Mr. Embleton. 
Darton Collieries, near Barnsley, 
2Sth October, 1839. 
My Dear Sir, 
I have written to all our colleagues on the section committee, 
but have not yet received an answer, therefore I cannot name a day 
for our meeting. I have also written to Mr. Binne}^, of Manchester, 
on this subject, and respecting the scales. A copy of our line of 
section has also been sent to Professor Phillips and Mr. De La Beche, 
wuth a request that they will give us the benefit of their opinion 
and advice thereon. Mr. Wilson will most likely call a council 
meeting for Friday next, if so, I shall probably have the pleasure of 
seeing you at Wakefield along with the other councillors. "With 
respect to the Leeds meeting, I presume you may consider yourself 
the "Plenipotentiary" of the Society ; and, in the exercise of your 
high powers, let me beg of you not to forget the dinner for the ladies 
as well as for the gentlemen, you know that I have pledged myself 
to bring this matter before the notice of our august councillors, and 
I shall most assuredly redeem my pledge, notwithstanding that 
such an innovation may be sneered at and resisted as a dangerous 
organic change. I should think it will be proper for you to make 
arrangements for a reporter to attend our meeting, it would indeed 
be a loss to the public to allow such flowers of eloquence to 'bhish 
unseen, and waste their sweetness on the desert air.' Give my kind 
respects to Mrs. Embleton and Miss Easton, and to j\Iiss Emily 
Easton, if she has not departed for cannie Newcastle. 
