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one or other kind of implement, including- arrow and spear-lieads, 
scrapers, and a few very small and neatly pointed flints, which Dr. 
John Evans considered unique, and may have been used as carving 
tools. 
In 1883 the Rev. J. Stanley Tute, of Markington, read a paper 
on the sequence of the Permian Rocks near Ripon, and described 
some indications of a raised beach at Redcar. Mr. "W. Y. Veitcli 
also described some evidences of a submerged forest and peat beds 
in the neighbourhood of Hartlepool and Redcar, and a raised beach 
at Saltburn. The latter consists of a band of alluvial sand contain- 
ing shells of marine species, such as purpura, litorina, and others. 
The beach is thirty-five feet above high- water mark. The existence 
of this raised beach at Saltburn only on this part of the coast indi- 
cates the extremely slow denuding action carried on by the sea. At 
Robin Hood's Bay, where the sea's action is accurately marked, its 
inroad is about twenty feet a year, three coastguard flagstaffs having 
been washed away in twenty years, which were placed respectively 
140 feet from the shore. 
Mr, Thos. H. Easterfield described a glacial deposit near Don- 
caster, at the Balby Brickworks. It consists of a tough, dark-blue 
clay, packed with boulders up to half a ton in weight, the latter 
mainly of local origin, though a few Carboniferous limestones are 
found. The extent of the deposit is stated to be about a quarter of 
a mile in greatest diameter. In a letter which was received in the 
following year Mr. Easterfield stated that the deposit extended as far 
as Warmsworth, so that it is over a mile in extent. Papers on the 
Geology of Palestine by Mr. W. H. Hudleston, and notes on a visit 
to the Channel Tunnel by Prof. Arnold Lupton, were also contributed 
to the proceedings of this year. 
At a meeting held at Ripon in May, the Rev. W. C. Lukis, 
Rector of Wath, occupied the chair. In an address which he gave 
he stated his opinion that the Polytechnic side of the Society might 
very well include the results of archaeological investigation. In 
previous years papers on British, Roman, and other remains had 
been freely inserted in its proceedings, and he considered that the 
tools and weapons of the primitive inhabitants of Yorkshire, and 
