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presented with an illuminated address and a cheque for £250. 
This tribute had been subscribed for by 206 geologists, includ- 
ing many of the most distinguished geologists in the country, 
and especially by members of the county and local societies 
in Yorkshire, and was handed to Prof. Kendall by Mr. J. W. 
Stather, F.G.S. 
THE ADDRESS. 
Mr. Godfrey Bing ley presented an illuminated address to 
Professor Kendall on behalf of the subscribers. The address 
was in the following terms : — ‘ We whose names are appended 
desire, upon the occasion of your retirement from the Chair 
of Geology in the University of Leeds, to express our esteem 
and regard for you, and our appreciation of your great services 
to science. During the thirty years in which you have made 
Yorkshire your home, your influence has been deeply felt 
as inspiring teacher, indefatigable worker, and brilliantly 
original thinker. Nearly every geological formation which 
goes to the building of Yorkshire has received illumination 
from your researches to the advantage both of pure science 
and of its economic application. We recognise you as one of 
the founders and foremost students of modern Glacialogy, 
and one who by your insight and imagination has endowed 
many of our north-country dales with romantic interest. 
Your studies of the Carboniferous Rocks have led, and are 
leading, to a wide extension of the exploited coalfield of 
Yorkshire and the Midlands. Your intimate understanding 
of the conditions under which the Coal Measures were accumu- 
lated has afforded means of diagnosis of the nature of anomalies 
in the coal seams of the English coalfields, hardly less im- 
portant in practical effect. Most of all do we desire to ack- 
nowledge the kindliness of your friendship, and the stimulus 
which your good fellowship and unselfish assistance have 
exerted upon the amateur pursuit of geological science in all 
parts of the north of England. We trust you may enjoy 
many years of health and continued usefulness.' 
STUMP CROSS CAVERN. 
A little while ago some of the Yorkshire papers occupied 
much of their space by accounts of some * remarkable dis- 
coveries ' near Pateley Bridge, by persons described as ‘spel- 
eologists ' (sic). The caverns are said to be ‘ equal to the 
finest of the Mendip caverns, hitherto claimed as the finest 
examples of stalactite caverns in Great Britain. The party 
had been “ investigating " for a fortnight, and one told a 
“ fascinating story of subterranean exploration.' " One 
‘ struck a small hole ' ; another was ‘ spiked in the back by 
stalactites ’ ; others found ‘ serac formations.' Names have 
been given to different parts of the ‘ discoveries,’ such as 
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