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invited the Council of the Society to meet at his residence, Banks 
Hall, to further discuss the line the sections should take. 
The following extract from a letter from Mr, Wilson to Mr. 
Embleton, dated April 6th, 1840, is interesting. — " Mr. Holt proposes 
Monday, the 27th instant, for the meeting at Banks, which will also 
suit Mr. Briggs and Mr. Morton. If I hear from you that it is incon- 
venient to you, I will immediately inform Messrs. Thorp and Hartop. 
I propose that we should breakfast at half-past nine, as you are so 
far off, I hope you will come the night before. I have suggested that 
we should meet alternately at three or four places in this neighbour- 
hood, instead of Wakefield, once a month. Do you not think we 
should work better in this way, having more time for our deliberations." 
All the gentlemen named accepted the invitation, and after partaking 
of the good cheer provided, proceeded with all due decorum and 
wisdom to the solution of the much debated problem. Mr. Hartop 
advocated his scheme for the South of Barnsley, which would enable 
the council to incorporate the Wentworth House section, which had 
been made several years previously, had since been improved upon 
and corrected, and was then probably as accurate as any section 
existing. Mr. Thorp hesitated to advocate his line towards Derby- 
shire, and did not appear to have made up his mind about any of 
them. Whilst Mr. Holt, with much skill and pertinacity proposed 
that the section should extend from the border of the county through 
Nortliowram, thence to Flockton, and across to Woolley, and east- 
wards to the escarpment of the Permian Limestone. After much 
consultation and reference to maps, the latter line was finally decided 
upon. Messrs. Morton and Holt were requested to report fully on 
the subject at the next quarterly meeting of the members in June. 
The report was presented in due course, and is printed in the 
proceedings of the society issued to the members, pp. 18-24. After 
recapitulating the lines of sections which had been suggested for the 
consideration of the council, they report that after very careful 
examination they have determined to recommend to the society the 
adoption of the one commencing near Halifax, and proceeding in a 
south-easterly direction towards Doncaster, which, whilst it developes 
our own coal measures to the fullest extent, does not altogether lose 
