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greater opportimity to be present at the meeting of the British 
Association at York. The Council reported that arrangements had 
been made, in accordance with the resolution passed at the last annual 
meeting, for the removal of the Museum to the Hall of the Philo- 
sophical and Literaiy Society at Leeds, and that the specimens had 
been placed there in a separate apartment, and arrangements made 
for their safe custody, details of which will be found on another page. 
The members were congratulated on the amount of observation which 
had been made in several new lines of railway in process of formation 
in the district. " Such a favourable opportunity for examining the 
structure of this interesting portion of the county may probably 
never occur again, and the facilities which are afforded, if properly 
cultivated, will afford opportunities for the collection of a mass of 
information of the greatest practical importance." The balance 
sheet showed a deficit of rather more than £16, and the subscriptions 
amounted to only £104. Mr. Clay resigned his position as honorary 
secretary and treasurer, and the Rev. William Thorp, of Womersley 
Vicarage, was unanimously elected to occupy the vacated offices. In 
accordance with the arrangements with the Philosophical Society at 
Leeds, Mr. J. Garth Marshall was elected honorary curator, along 
with Mr. Embleton. 
A brief notice of Mr. James Garth Marshall has already been 
given. It may be supplemented by the following observations : — He 
was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1833. He inherited 
from his father a love of science, especially of geology, for the study 
of which his residence among the mountains of the north of England 
afforded him many facilities. These he turned to good account during 
the many years in which he resided in his paternal home at 
Halsteads-on-Ulswater, where he made and recorded a valuable series 
of meteorological observations, including the rainfall on Swarth Fell, 
and afterwards at Coniston. He traced the Bala or Couiston Lime- 
stone across the country near his home, and paid close attention to 
the metamorphic and granitic rocks of the district, his observations 
leading him to an opinion which has been adopted by many geologists, 
viz., that the so-called granitic neuclei are often only the completely 
changed portions of the neighbouring strata, there being frequently 
