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some day when you are in Leeds will enable you to consider and to 
give us your advice. I should hope you will allow your name to 
remain on the Council, though I fear it would be hopeless to expect, 
with your engagements, that you could give us more than a temporary 
assistance. 1 am, my dear Sir, Yours truly, 
T. W. Embleton, Esq., THOMAS WILSON. 
The committee presented a report at a meeting held in January, 
1872, at Keighley, Mr. John Brigg, J. P., in the chair, in which the 
following items occur : — They had investigated the position of the 
Society and found the number of members on the books to be 121. 
The arrears of subscriptions for 1871 amounted to £63 Is., and those 
for the previous year to £28 14s. The annual income of the Society 
was estimated at £78 13s., and its necessary expenditure at £73. 
The committee considered it possible to add largely to the number 
of members by an active canvass. It was considered a matter of 
great importance to support and strengthen an institution which 
had rendered good service to local geology for 34 years ; and that 
there was an extensive field of work open to it in the future, the 
geological features of the West Riding being still imperfectly under- 
stood. The committee had considered the various ways in which the 
Society might be most useful, and they offered suggestions for its 
future management : — 
" 1. — That the proceedings of the Society should be more 
exclusively confined to geology and technology, the two branches of 
science which were contemplated as the proper field of the Society at 
its first institution. The department of local archaeology is now 
occupied by a Yorkshire Society, which is labouring with energy and 
success to discharge those duties which this Society, inconsistently 
perhaps with its title, but still usefully, had taken upon itself 
" 2. — That a small committee of revision, composed of five 
persons, of whom three should form a quorum, be appointed to 
examine all papers read at the Society's meetings, and to select such 
only as are specially suited for publication. That it be a standing 
instruction to this committee to recommend only those papers which 
contain valuable original matter on some of the subjects which are 
taken into consideration by the Society, or which had a special 
reference to the geology or industries of the West Riding. 
