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stride being about one inch and a half. The impression of the toe 
nails was sharp and distinct. From some of the marks indented 
lines extend backwards, as though the feet had been drawn along the 
surface. In 1840 similar impressions were found on slabs of stone at 
Hill Bridge, near Owlerton ; and the following year at Fullwood Head, 
west from Sheffield, footprints occurred on some beds of brown sand- 
stone, along with worm-tracks. Upon one he deciphered forty con- 
tinuous impressions of the same track, the distance between the foot- 
steps being about one inch ; and at Walkley, a stratum containing 
similar footprints was found in 1841. From an examination of these 
footprints and a comparison with the feet of many recent reptiles, of 
some of which Mr. Lee had made casts, he was convinced that the 
tracks were those of a small reptile, probably lacertian. The author 
refers to the description by Prof. Hitchcock of Ornithicnites found in 
the valley of Connecticut, and considers that these footprints may be 
referred to a species very similar. The specimens are from sand- 
stones, the equivalent of the Elland Flag Rock, and he considers that 
they are almost peculiar to the Lower, or Ganister Coal Series. 
At the annual meeting held at Wakefield in September, 1842, it 
was stated in the Report of the Council that the number of members 
had been increased to 329 ; 33 new members having been elected, 
24 resigned, and 5 removed by death. During the year the quarterly 
meetings had been regularly held, at Huddersfield, Sheffield, and two 
meetings at Wakefield, at all of which communications of interest 
and importance were read ; many of them are of considerable prac- 
tical value, and justified the existence of the Society as an exponent, 
in addition to geological subjects, of the various subjects connected 
with the trade of the West Riding, more especially that of coal 
mining. The Council report, with much regret, Mr. Wilson's resig- 
nation of the offices of secretary and treasurer, which he had most 
efficiently filled since the formation of the Society. To his zealous 
and indefatigable exertions, the success which had attended the 
operations of the Society were in a great degree to be attributed, 
and great regret w^as expressed at the loss of so able and willing a 
gentleman. The establishment of a Museum of geological specimens, 
and more particularly of those peculiar to the district, had always 
