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Proceedings, 1871 — 1877. 
" 3. — That photographs of interesting geological phenomena 
within the Riding be issued periodically to the members, accompanied 
by descriptive letter-press. The photographs should be on a good 
scale, and if possible rendered permanent by some of the processes 
now in use. The committee had made enquiries as to the probable 
cost of such photographs, and they are of opinion that one or two 
plates, 14 inch by 9 inch, may be issued annually without incurring 
too heavy an expense. 
" 4. — That a summary of geological literature relating to the 
West Riding, published within the preceding year, be inserted in the 
annual report of the proceedings. The committee also recommend 
that a list of titles of papers on West Riding geology, contained in 
the transactions and journals for past j^ears of the various Geological 
Societies, as well as of separate publications on the same subject, be 
issued in an early report." 
Mr. Miall offered to undertake for one year, without salary, the 
duties of assistant secretar)", and the committee recommended that 
this arrangement be sanctioned by the Society. It was further con- 
sidered higlily desirable to retain a collection of local fossils in some 
central part of the West Riding, and they urged the necessity of 
increasing and improving the collection of the Society under such 
regulations as may add to its usefulness as a means of public 
instruction. 
This report was presented to the general meeting and adopted, 
and the proceedings of the Society for the years 1871-2 were issued 
to the members, together with a photograph of the contorted lime- 
stone at Draughton, and the Society from that time appears to have 
remained in a state of quiescence until the year 1875, when meetings 
were held at Halifax and Bradford, the former in April and the latter 
in October. 
At the meeting held at Leeds in July, 1871, Mr. L. C. Miall 
read a paper recording the result of some experiments to illustrate 
the contortion of rocks. At a previous meeting he had drawn atten- 
tion to the remarkable anticlinals in the limestone rocks of Skipton 
and Draughton, and during the past three years he had made experi- 
ments to show how these phenomena could have been produced, and 
