PROCEEDINGS 
OF TEE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
#f the of gorfcsjnre, 
AT THE SEVENTY-THIRD MEETING, HELD IN THE 
LECTURE-ROOM OF THE CHURCH INSTITUTE, AT WAKEFIELD, 
ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28TH, 1869. 
Dr. Holds worth (Mayor of Wakefield) in the Chair. 
The Chairman having briefly alluded to the origin of the 
Society at Wakefield, and welcomed the members to the 
town on the present occasion, 
The following gentlemen were unanimously elected mem- 
bers of the Society : — Dr. Holdsworth, of W akefield ; the 
Bev. Scott F. Surtees, Hector of Sprotburgh ; Sir Charles 
Lowther, Bart., of Swillington House ; T. W. Tew, of Carlton 
Villa, Pontefract ; Stephen Seal, of Groldthorpe Hall, Darfield. 
The accounts of the Society for the past year were then 
read, and the officers and committee appointed, as follows: — 
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE 
Of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West-Riding of Yorkshire. 
From October, 1867, to October, 1868. 
DR. 
£. 
s. 
d. 
CR. 
£. 
s. 
d. 
By 2 Subscriptions for 1866 . . 
.. 1 
6 
0 
By Printing and Advertising . . 
18 
19 
0 
„ 84 
„ 1867.. 
.. 54 
12 
0 
,, Philosophical Society for 
„ 13 
„ 1868.. 
.. 8 
9 
0 
Rent of-Museum Rooms , . 
10 
0 
0 
,, Collecting Subscriptions .... 
1 
10 
7 
,, Postages 
1 
8 
5 
,, Expenses of Meetings 
0 14 
3 
,, Carriage of Parcels and Re- 
ports 
,, Subscription to the Palseon- 
0 
5 
9 
tographical Society 
,, Lithographing Plates for Re- 
1 
1 
0 
ports 
,, Purchase of Sections and 
2 
3 
0 
Diagrams 
„ Photographs of Ancient 
1 
8 
0 
Crosses 
0 
6 
0 
, , Stationery 
0 
2 
6 
,, General Secretary on Account 26 
8 
6 
£64 
7 
0 
£64 
7 
0 
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