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Dear Colleagues, Yorkshire Geology Month and the Society's wider summer programme got off to a splendid start at the National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield, on Saturday 27th April, with a total of nine talks, three underground colliery tours, two local geological walks and around a dozen exhibitors in the displays area. Our thanks go to many individuals and organisation without which this very well supported event would never have been possible, particularly the National Coal Mining Museum and its staff, the principal organisers on behalf of the Society, especially Alison Tymon and John Knight, other members of the Society's Council and all our excellent speakers. However, writing on 1st May we still have a further 19 Yorkshire Geology Month events to come, all of which deserve the sort of enthusiastic support we had from both members and non-members at Wakefield last weekend. Our Programme Secretary, John Knight, and his assistants have produced a very memorable summer field meeting programme, this time with something of an an easterly bias (appropriate as our oldest Corresponding Society, the Hull Geological Society, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this June). Details of both the Society's general Summer programme and the latest updates for Yorkshire Geology Month are now on the website at: http://www.yorksgeolsoc.org.uk/ and will also be in the Summer 2013 Field Meetings Circular, which is in press and will soon be posted to all members. The Society's next field meeting will be to the classic Yorkshire Chalk of Flamborough Head, on Saturday 18th May led by our General Secretary, Paul Hildreth, and will be the Society's own main contribution to Yorkshire Geology Month. In terms of the Society's history our first weekend excursion was one to the Yorkshire Wolds in July 1879, (probably quite a surprise to the then membership who were predominantly from the West Riding and more interested in the coal, iron, limestone and clay of their own locality!) To reflect this important landmark for the Society we are having an excursion on the Wolds on Saturday 20th July. However, these are just part of a very interesting and varied programme for the Society's 175th anniversary year, so do please try to support these efforts and at the same time have a really enjoyable day out in one or more very interesting and attractive areas of our region. Patrick Boylan President ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the YGS-MEMBERS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=YGS-MEMBERS&A=1