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ready for this year, I would suggest that we might delay further 

 publication until next year. By that time I could probably have 

 my paper ready, or at least either the Marine, or Land and Fresh- 

 Water section of it, if it were considered to be worth including 

 in the Proceedings of the Field Club. 



With a view to a better investigation of the Marine Shells and 

 otber organisms of the Cleveland Coast I would suggest that the 

 Field Club should endeavour to arrange for a dredging excursion 

 in Tees-mouth during the coming summer." 



To Mr. Lofthouse he wrote in 1903. "I have been up to 

 Rudd Scar this morning, taking a hammer with me, but though 

 I did my best I was altogether unable to expose a single bit of 

 Equisetitib in situ. I found, however, a very interesting deposit 

 of "dogger," where no "dogger" has been supposed to exist. 

 I do nou know what it would be best to suggest that you should 

 do when you come out here witli the Field Club. I could show 

 you the big oak in Greenhow It struck me to-day that there is 

 a bit of around that would well repay working right up in the 

 corner of Greenhow Bottom. It is a secluded place and there 

 are some bits of bo^gy ground. On a fine, mild day I should 

 think you might do well at insects up there. There were plenty 

 of butterflies out to-day. Energetic members of the Club might 

 like to climb the bank above which would bring them on to 

 Botton Head, the highest point of Eastern Yorkshire, where the 

 Ordnance Survey had a station for some time. The summit is 

 crowned by a large tumulus of the date of the " Bronze Age." 

 To the writer he remarked in a letter, July 20th, 1901, on place- 

 names." 



" Speaking of the way in which the names of villages grew to 

 be surnames of the people hailing from them, the group of sur- 

 names dependent upon your village of Heathwaite as occuring in 

 the Stokesley Register is not without interest. The spellings are 

 Heathwaite, Heathwait, Heathwhaite, Heathwood, Heathwode, 

 Heuthwaite, Hewthwaite, Hewtherd. Hathwait, Hathwhaitt, 

 Hathwhitt, Huthert, Hutherd, Huther, Howther. The evolution 

 of surnames is one of the thousand matters of interest upon 

 which the publication of Parish Registers throws helpful light. 

 Indeed there is absolutely no other means so far as I know or 

 can guess of tracing the origin of such a name as Huthert." 



