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THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION AT 

 KILDALE-IN-CLEVELAND. 



The members of the ^'orkshire Naturalists' Union visited Kildale 

 on Saturday, the 12th July, and were fortunate in various respects. 

 The weather, which was decidedly moist in most parts of Yorkshire,, 

 was quite fine, though with an overcast sky, in the region which the 

 Union engaged in investigating. The arrangements — thanks to the 

 local knowledge of the members of the Cleveland Naturalists' Club — • 

 were singularly complete, and carried out as planned, while the 

 results at the close of the day were decidedly above the average. 

 The attendance was about an average one — about forty or fifty being 

 on the ground during the day — although at the tea and meetings there 

 were not so many as usual, a number of members having to leave by 

 early trains. 



The district which had been selected for examination included 

 the valley of the Leven from Kildale downwards to Battersby and 

 Ayton, the moors overlooking it, and for geologists the whinstone 

 dyke at the foot of Roseberry Topping. Three parties were arranged, 

 all starting from Kildale Railway Station. 



The first party consisted of conchologists and botanists, under 

 the leadership of Mr. Baker Hudson, M.C.S., of Middlesbrough, and 

 had a very easy task, their line of route not extending to more than 

 a couple of miles, and lying entirely in the picturesque woodlands 

 which skirt the course of the Leven. Their work, too, was taken 

 easily, and at one point a small damp hollow full of leaf mould and 

 dead leaves proved most attractive and productive. Here J^u/a 

 ringens (new to Kildale) was found commonly in the dampest 

 portions of the hollow, and Helix lainellata was equally common on 

 leaves in the drier portions. 



The second party consisted of geologists, under the leadership 

 of Dr. W. Y. Veitch, of Middlesbrough, and Rev. John HawelI,M.A., 

 Vicar of Ingleby Greenhow, and was perhaps the most numerously 

 attended of the three. They first proceeded to examine the spoil- 

 heaps near Kildale Station, then followed the line of route of the 

 first party as far as the disused Bleach Mill. Here they diverged, 

 striking up the wood to Easby Moor, thence by the monument 

 erected in memory of Capt. Cook, who was born not many miles 

 away, to the whinstone quarries near Roseberry Topping, and thence 

 to Ayton Station. 



The third party consisted of entomologists, under the leadersliip 

 of Mr. T. A. Lofthouse, accompanied by Mr. John Gardner. They 

 were with the second party for some distance, diverging at Easby 



Sept. 1890. 



