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1I Tran sactions of th e Edinburgh Geological Society," Vol. iii.,P art 1, 1877 j from t hat Society.

" Annual Meeting of the Leeds Philosophical and LiterarySociety," for 1876-77 ; from that Society.

"Transactions ofthe Manchester Geological Society," Vol. xi v.,P arts 11 to 13, 1877 ; from that Society.

" Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archeeological and NaturalH istory Society," New Series, Vol. ii., 1877 ; from that Society.

" P roceedings of the South 'Vales Institute of Engineers,"Vol. x., No. 5, 1877 j from that In stitute.

" Annual Report of the Warwickshire Natural History andArchreological Society," for 1876 j from that Society.

"Communications to the Monthly Meetings of the YorkshirePhilosophical Society," 1876 j from that Society.

"Journal of the Society of Arts," July to October, 1877 ; fromthat Society.

•, Annual Report of th e School of Mines, Ballarat," for 1876 j

from th e School of Mines." Bernard Quaritch's General Catalogue 'of Books, Supplement

for 1875-77 j " from Mr. Quaritoh.

The foilowing were elected Members of the Association :-

.John Hopwood Blake, Esq., F. G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E. , H.M.Geol. Survey; Mrs. A. Cowen j G. R. Cowen, Esq. ; E . D.Duncan, Esq.; T. Richard J ohnson, Esq. j Alexander Payne,E sq. j Thomas Ogier W ard, E sq. M.A.

The President then delivered the Inaugural Address of theSession 18i7·78. (See page 191.)

ORDINARY MEETING, DECEMBER 7TH, 1877.

HENRY HICKS, E sq., F.G. S., Vice-President, in th e Chair.

The following Donations were announced :-

" Memoirs of th e Geological Survey, Geology of East Somersetand th e Bristol Coal Fields," by Horace B. Woodward, F . G.S. ;from the Author.

" On the Occurrence of Plicaiula lcevigata of d'Orbigny, in the

232 J . F. BLAKE ON T il E CHAL K OF YORKSHIRE.

Middle Lias of Gloucestershire," by Frederick Smithe, LL.D .,F .G.S.; from the Author.

" The Quarterly J ournal of the Geological Society of London,"for November, 1877, No. 132 ; from tb at Society.

"Abst racts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society ofLond on," Nos. 340 and 341; from th at Society.

" Li st of tb e Members of the Geological Society of London,&c. j" from tb at· Society.

" P roceedings of tb e Natural Hi story Society of Glasgow,"V01. i ii., P art 2.

" J ournal of th e Proceedings of th e Winchester and H ampshireScientific and Literary Society," Vol. ii., Part 3.

"Transactions of the Manchest er Geological Society j " fromthat Society.

" Tb e Seventh Annu al Report and President's Address, 1876-7,of th e Leeds Naturalist s' Olub and Scientific Association ;" fromthat Olub.

"Journal of th e Society of Arts," Nos. 1,303-7 j from thatSociety.

Th e following were elected Members of th e Association :­

Dr. Drew; H. B. Lindsay, Esq.; Rev. W. E. Oliver, LL.B.

The following Paper was read :-

ON THE OHALK OF Y ORK SHIRE.

By THE Rev. J . F . BLAKE, M.A., F.G. S.

There are special reasons wby a communication on th e Ohalk ofYorkshire should be addressed to tile Members of th e Geologists'Associati on. In the first place one of the earl iest of th eir pub­lished papers, that of th e Rev. T. Wilt shire, " On the Red Chalkof En gland," deals with one of the most int eresting portions ofth e subj ect. In th e second place, one of the most recent -snd,perhaps, the most important of th e additions to our knowledge ofit has been made by a French geologist- Dr. Barrois-who visitedthe county in company with the members of the excursion par ty toYorkshire two years ago : and in the third and most import ant place,it is to a Member of thi s Association, Mr. R. Mortimer, of Fimber,who, for seventeen years, bas been steadily accumulating th e fossilsof a Chalk reported uufossiliferous, that a very larg e portion of