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SECRETARY’S REPORT. 
The present meeting- is the fourth held during- the year. The 
members have met on three occasions at which papers have been 
communicated ; the fourth took the form of an excursion in Holderness. 
The first meeting was held at Leeds, in the Lecture Theatre of the 
Philosophical and Literary Society, on February 14th ; Wm. Cheet- 
ham, Esq., presided, and papers were contributed by Messrs. G-. R.Vine, 
W. H. Hudleston, President of the Geologists Association, London ; 
and Arnold Lupton, Memb. I.C.E., Mining Instructor at the York- 
shire College. The second meeting was held at the Town Hall, 
Ripon, on May 9th, and the chair was occupied by Rev. W. C. Lukis, 
M.A., F.S.A., who gave an address; papers were contributed by 
Mr. H. B. Hewetson, and Rev. J. Stanley Tute, B.A. 
On July 21st and 23rd, an excursion to Patrington, Kilnsea, and 
Spurn Point took place. The members met at Hull, and went by 
rail to Patrington, after inspecting the beautiful old church, they 
were driven to Easington, and thence to Kilnsea : at the latter place 
a number of ancient “ Kitchen middens” were examined. On the 
following day some of the party walked to the end of Spurn Point. 
The members left Easington on the 23rd, and proceeding by way of 
Hull, went to Hornsea, and after inspecting Hornsea Mere, a large 
lake below the level of the sea, drove to Skipsea, where Thos. 
Boynton, Esq., of Ulrome Grange, met the party. Proceeding first 
to the coast, a section of an ancient lake exposed in the cliff, was 
inspected. From thence, by way of Skipsea Howe, the party walked 
along the side of the Barmston drain to a lake-dwelling at Ulrome, 
which Mr. Boynton discovered, and has since excavated. 
Full and detailed particulars of the excursion, and more especially 
the Lake Dwelling, will be found in a separate paper to be printed 
in the proceedings of the society. After inspecting the Lake Dwell- 
ing, the members were conducted by Mr. Boynton to his residence, 
where he entertained them at dinner, and afterwards exhibited his 
collection of implements and pottery found during the excavations of 
