2 74 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS* UNION AT KILDALE. 



several of the trees. Cephalozia catenulata van pallida Spruce 

 has also been gathered on Easby Moor by Mr. R. Barnes of 

 Saltburn. 



The Geological Section, in the absence of all its officers, was 

 under the leadership of Dr. W. Y. Veitch, of Middlesbrough, and 

 the Rev. John Hawell, M.A., Vicar of Ingleby-Greenhow, the latter 

 of whom furnishes the following report : — Leaving Kildale Station, 

 the party first proceeded to examine the peat bed revealed by the 

 railway-section a little to the south. Owing, however, to the care 

 ■with which the railway company's servants level up all inequalities 

 of the bank, no very satisfactory exposure presented itself for 

 observation, though the position and character of the bed were seen. 

 Similar deposits occur in the vicinity of Middlesbrough and of 

 Hartlepool, and from it at Kildale have been taken the horns of the 

 Red-deer {Cervus elap/ii/s) and the Reindeer {C. taraiuius). An 

 investigation was next made of a large deposit of rubbish thrown out 

 near the site of the ironstone workings near Kildale. As it is now 

 many years since the works here were in operation, the ejected 

 debris was found to be much weathered, and such fossils as had not 

 suffered from the weathering process were readily extracted. It was 

 at once evident that the rubbish was from the Mid-Liassic zone of 

 Am. spinatus, the fossils obtained including such characteristic forms 

 as Am. spinatus, Pecten cequivalvis. Motiotis i/uequivalvis, Limea acuti- 

 £Osta, Rhynchonella tetrahed7-a, Terebratula punctata, Belemnites 

 breviformis, Ostrea siibiiiargaritacea, and Chonlophyllites cicatricosus. 

 Fragments of wood were also observed in considerable abundance. 

 The 'Cleveland Main Seam' of Liassic Ironstone, which at 

 Upleatham, only a few miles away, has an undivided thickness of 

 13 ft., has unfortunately here dwindled down to a thickness of only 

 5 ft. 4 in., and even this includes an inter-bedded band of shale 

 measuring about i ft. 3 in. Still, there are compensations every- 

 where, and wandering over this ' land whose stones are iron,' one 

 may reflect that, had the seam at this place been richer, what one of 

 the historians of Cleveland has ventured to call ' Sweet Auburn, 

 loveliest village of the plain,' might have become a Zarephath, 

 a 'place of furnaces.' 



Proceeding down the Kildale Wood, lower beds of the Middle 

 Lias were seen coming into view. The hardness of the Margaritatus 

 Sandstone has given origin to a small waterfall. The falling of the 

 Leven over the ridge at this point is productive of effects, which, on 

 a quiet summer's day, are highly pleasing to ear and eye. Just at the 

 entrance to the wood was passed the dam of an artificial lake, which 

 formerly ornamented the grounds of Kildale Hall. Another lake 



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