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 Secretary's Annual Report for 2014-2015

Over the last 12 months seven new individuals and families have been elected as members of the Society and we have received two resignations.

We have held eight lecture meetings, one Members’ Evening, at least eight Bisat Research Project meetings, four Roadshows, nine Club Nights, five Microscopy Evenings, three conservation visits to Rifle Butts SSSI, four public walks, four field meetings, one photographic exhibition and a symposium on Geology and Art. We have also published Humberside Geologist number 15 which contained eight research articles, three field meeting reports and two other articles written by members. I wonder how many other clubs provide such good value for the eight pounds membership subscription?

We have worked together with the newly reformed Harker Geological Society - they invited me to speak at one of their meetings and we held a joint meeting recently with a lecture about Alfred Harker (a past president of the HGS). Under the guidance of Anna Kirk-Smith we collaborated with the Yorkshire Geological Society and Hull School of Art and Design to create the "Regrading Dynamic Processes" Symposium. "The Endless Here" art exhibition about our research work at Flamborough was in Studio Eleven for six weeks in the autumn and has also been displayed in London.

We have carried out conservation work to the exposure at Rifle Butts - contributing to the cost of the netting over the rock face to try to prevent vandalism and our members provided about 80 hours of voluntary work at the site. We are now working with the new site warden to register our members as YWT volunteers and create a management plan for the geological reserve.

Steve Taylor donated the late Sue Wardell's geological books and collection to the HGS. Stuart Jones & I have been working of this - local specimens have been donated to the Treasure House, textbooks and field guides have been added to the Society's Library and other specimens and books have been sold to raise funds for the Society.

I have been updating the Society's website and will move it to a new host soon, when the present subscription expires. Rod Towse in his role as our new Treasurer has been bust changing the address and signatories on our accounts. The Officers plan to revise the Society's Rules and Policies over the coming year (if you would like to help please contact me). The Society's meetings for the rest of this year have been finalised - I hope you will support and enjoy these events.

On behalf of the Society I wish to thank the Committee, Editors and field excursion leaders for their contribution to our events in the last year. I thank the Department of Geography. Environment and Earth Sciences for hosting our indoor meetings and our guest speakers for their lectures. There are too many people to thank individually but I think we should record our gratitude Nina & Ian Scott who are retiring from the Committee; Barrie Heaton who retires as President and Patty McAlpin (who started our Microscopy Evenings in 2004) who has recently resigned from the Society.

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