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secretary's report, 1906. 
The Council decided that the List of Members should be 
issued and bound up with each part of the Proceedings, but not 
paged, so that it could be omitted in binding if desired. 
The circumstances arising out of the Secretary's resignation 
were considered, when it was decided that the Honorary Secre- 
taryship sliould be separated from the Editorship of the Pro- 
ceedings. A ballot was then taken, and as the result it was 
unanimously resolved to recommend to the Annual Meeting the 
following names for election : — 
Hon. Secretary :— Mr. James H. Howarth, F.G.S. 
Treasurer : — Mr. William Simpson, F.G.S. 
Auditor :— Mr. F. W. Branson, F.C.S. 
Mr. A. R. Dwerryhouse, D.Sc, F.G.S., was unanimously 
appointed Editor of the Proceedings. A Publication Com- 
mittee, consisthig of Professor P. F. Kendall, Mr. J. W. Stather, 
and the Rev. W. Lower Carter, was appointed for conference 
with the Editor as to the publication of papers. 
The following resolution was proposed by the Chairman 
(Mr. Walter Rowley) and carried unanimously : — " That in the 
interests of the Society the Council receive with great and sincere 
regret the resignation of the Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., 
and assure him of their grateful appreciation of the eminent ser- 
vices he has rendered to the science of geology, and more es- 
pecially to this Society, during the 13 years in which he has 
acted as its Honorary Secretary and Editor of the Proceedings." 
It was also resolved that the resignation of Mr. Wm. Cash, 
F.G.S., as Co-editor, be accepted, with best thanks for his services 
for the past 13 years. 
We regret to have to record the loss by decease, since the 
last Annual Meeting, of three members : Lord Masham, a life 
member and Vice-President of the Society, Mr. R. Moffat Kerr, 
of Halifax, and Mr. Richard B. Cragg, of Skipton. Three other 
names have also been removed from the list owing to resig- 
nation. The number of additions to our membership has been 
unusuallj" large, 26 in all, thus making a net gain of 20 mem- 
bers for the year, and leaving a total membership of 212, which 
is the highest yet recorded. 
