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The Leeds Waturalists’ Elub and Scientific Association. 
ween a 
A-FIELD DAY AT ALDBOROUGH AND 
BOROUGHBRIDGE. 
By W. Denison Roebuck. 
Encovracep by the success which attended the August Bank Holiday 
Excursion to Riccall Common, in 1875, in concert with the Societies 
at Goole and Hull, the council of the Leeds Naturalists’ Club and 
Scientific Association determined to repeat the experiment. In 
conjunction with the Richmond and North Riding Naturalists’ Field 
Club, the Huddersfield Naturalists’ Society, and the York and 
District Field Naturalists’ Society, and supported by numerous 
members of other Naturalist Societies in the West Riding, an 
excursion took place on Monday, the 7th of August, 1876. 
The excursionists numbered over a hundred in all, and included a 
number of the principal members of the Natural History Societies of 
the West Riding, from Goole, Barnsley, Halifax, Bradford, Wakefield, 
&e. The district embraced by the excursion included the Roman 
station of Isurium, the woods at Copgrove, the watery dykes and 
willowy “carrs” of Staveley, the “ Devil’s arrows” at Roecliffe, and 
all the country around these places, and between them and Borough- 
bridge; the whole district being within the drainage-basin of the _ 
river Ure (here not far from its junction with the Swale), and lying 
entirely to the south of the river, and within the boundary of the 
‘West Riding. In connection with the natural history, it may be 
well to record that the York members having to wait two hours in 
_ the morning at Knaresborough, some of the observations were made 
in the Nidd Valley. 
The forenoon was mainly devoted to the investigation of the 
_ natural history of the district round Copgrove and Staveley, but on 
a — 
account of the unfavourable weather, and the great distance which 
Some of the party had to travel, rendering the time at disposal very 
limited in its duration, not much was done that is worth the record- 
ing ; and the chief interest which attaches to the lists given at the 
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