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HONORARY SECRETARY'S REPORT, 1906. 
The imnsual prevalence of fine weather this year has made 
field work very delightfid, and the success oi the Society's Meet- 
ings and Excursions has been unusually marked. The inter- 
esting investigations of the Lower Carboniferous rocks in 
Nidderdale and North Derbyshire have stimulated the wider 
examination of these rocks in Yorkshire by some of our members, 
which promises to bear fruit in very interesting and valuable 
results. 
The Spring Meeting was held at Leeds, as usual, and was 
associated with a Field Excursion to Micklefield and Garforth, 
under the leadership of Mr. Edwin Hawkes worth. At Garforth 
a visit was paid to the sand pits, to examine the basement sand 
of the Permian series, and the unconformity with the under- 
lying Middle Coal Measures. The lime quarries at Micklefield 
were then visited and the party was shown round by Mr. S. 
dough, the Manager. 
Some of the members by invitation attended Mr. Henry 
Crowther's lecture to children of the Leeds Elementary Schools, 
on "The Wonders of the Sea and Shore." 
At the Council Meeting Mr. Joseph Lomas, F.G.S., was 
■appointed Local Secretary for the Liverpool District, and Mr. 
Albert Wilmore, F.C.S., F.G.S., Local Secretary for the Colne 
District. Mr. William Simpson, F.G.S., was appointed delegate 
to the Corresponding Societies' Committee of the British Asso- 
•ciation for the York Meeting. 
The Council had pleasure in reporting that four of the 
members of our Society had been appointed officers of Section C 
of the British Association, viz. : — Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., 
F.G.S., the President, and three of the Secretaries, the Rev. 
W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., Mr. Jos. Lomas, F.G.S., and 
the Rev. W. Johnson, B.A., B.Sc. A report was received of new 
sections in. the Speeton Clay, at Speeton, and of the important 
