228 REV. W. THORP, B.A. — AGRICULTURAL GEOLOGY, ETC. 
tution. Lord Morpeth, Earl Spencer, and others spoke to the utility 
of the paper. 
At a meeting of the Council of the Society, held at the Philo- 
sophical Hall, Leeds, on July 10th, 1844, it was resolved " That the 
Council have seen with great pleasure the prospectus of a publication 
by the Rev. W. Thorp, illustrative of the Geology of the Yorkshire 
Coal-field, in which the papers read by him at various meetings of 
the Society will be comprehended ; and the Council have much satis- 
faction in recommending the work to the support, not only of every 
member of the Society, but also of all persons interested in Science 
and Manufactures." The work was advertised as in one volume, 
quarto, which will form a continuation of, and be printed uniformly 
with, Professor Phillips work on the IMountain Limestone District of 
Yorkshire." It is stated to include " a description of the various beds 
of Coal, Ironstone, Flagstone, Sandstone, and Fire Clays with their 
organic remains, which would be traced from place to place, and laid 
down on a map, and drawings given of the different genera of fossil- 
vegetables, and all the species of fishes and shells hitherto discovered; 
the tracts of coal next to be brought into operation after the 
exhaustion of the collieries now at work ; the extension of the coal 
beds beneath tlie Permian Limestone is to be examined ; the relation- 
ship of the Yorkshire Coal-field to those of Lancashire and Derb)^- 
shire is to be discovered, also the Agricultural Geology of the dis- 
trict, the whole to be accompanied by a Geological Map." Subscribers 
were requested to communicate with Messrs. E. Baines and Sons, the 
cost to be 30s. if 500 were subscribed for, and £2 if there were fewer ; 
with the prospectus is a list of 66 subscribers. The sections were 
published, but repeated enquiries for the book have not led to its 
discovery ; and it appears very probable that the list of subscribers 
never reached a sufficiently high number to warrant tlie author in 
proceeding with its publication. 
The diagrammatic section of tlie Coal-field of the West Riding, 
accompanied by a second vertical section extending from east to 
west, is of peculiar interest, not o\\\j because it was the first effort to 
illustrate a most complex and difficult geological area, but from the 
unique way in which the several pit sections are laid down. Not 
