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secretary's report, 1905. 
The interest of the General Meetings and Field Excursions 
during the past twelve months has been well maintained. In 
addition to the usual programme, the experiment was tried, 
with much success, of holding an extra General Meeting and 
Field Excursion at Easter in co-operation with the London 
Geologists' Association, by which a number of the members 
were enabled to study the geology of the Lincolnshire Wolds 
under very advantageous circumstances. 
The first Field Excursion was held at Leeds on March 2nd, 
when Mr. E. Hawkesworth led a party to examine the deposits 
of high-level sands and gravels at RothweU and Oulton. The 
General Meeting was held at the Church Institute, Leeds, under 
the chairmanship of Mr. William Ackroyd, F.I.C., F.C.S., 
Borough Analyst, Hahfax (whose loss we have so deeply to 
regret), and a very interesting discussion was introduced by 
Mr. Cosmo Johns on the question " Is the Theory of the 
Formation of the Coalfields of Great Britain by Secular Upheaval 
and Depression Tenable ? " Ten new members were elected. 
At Easter an extended Field Excursion was taken to the 
Lincolnshire Wolds, Louth being chosen as the centre. jVIr. John 
W. Stather, F.G.S., acted as chairman, and Prof. P. F. Kendall 
and the Hon. Secretary were the leaders. The programme 
covered most of the Wolds, three days being devoted specially 
to the glacial features and three to the sohd geology of the 
western escarpment, the beds examined var^^ng from the L^pper 
Chalk, which was found in several pits, to the Kimmeridge 
Clay, the Neocomian exposures being of exceptional interest. 
The Geologists' Association also held their Easter Meeting at 
Louth, and the fraternal intercourse with their members was of 
the most pleasant kind. The Yorkshire Society was welcomed 
on Thursday evening, April 22nd, at the rooms of the Louth 
Antiquarian and NaturaUsts' Society. 
The wide extent of the glacial deposits of this district render 
it particularly favourable for the study of the problems which 
are now occupying the minds of glacialists, and there is no part 
