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This was 400-500 feet above sea-level, and appeared to be on 
the summit of the watershed between the Skell and Ure. The 
material was a dirty sand, containing large numbers of pebbles 
and boulders, which included many kinds of Carboniferous 
limestones and cherts, grits, ganisters, and Magnesian limestones. 
Some of the boulders were fairly big, there was no stratification 
visible, the included stones being scattered quite indiscrimi- 
nately throughout the mass. This, coupled with the fact that 
many of the boulders and pebbles were well polished and 
striated, forced one to the conclusion that the deposit was a 
moraine. At Pickerstones, about 700 feet O.D., the main 
party saw a section of gravel. A quarry in Fountains Lane, 
where the ‘ Shell Bed,’ a member of the Cayton Gill series 
in the Millstone Grit is exposed, was examined, and many 
characteristic fossils were noted. 
VERTEBRATE ZooLocy.—Mr. H. B. Booth, F.Z.S. writes :— 
Because of the interest attached to the only really reliable habitat 
of the Lesser Horse-shoe Bat in Yorkshire, and this being its 
most northerly British record, the members of the Vertebrate 
Zoology Section investigated the Eavestone caves and lakes. 
Our guide was Mr. James Ingleby, who was chiefly responsible 
for having added this species to the Yorkshire fauna. A 
thorough search of the particular cave was made with the aid 
of artificial light, but, unfortunately, with a negative result. 
No sign of any species of Bat was visible—excepting a skeleton 
which Mr. Ingleby previously informed us that we should find 
lying on a rock inside the cave. This skeleton had almost 
perished and I am not certain that it belongs to a bat at all. 
Mr. Ingleby informed us that the end of this colony of Lesser 
Horse-shoe Bats had been hastened by some lads visiting the 
cave one Sunday afternoon, and liberating the bats in Sawley 
church during service the same evening. The vicar made 
strong representations to the local landowner, who in turn 
instructed his gamekeepers to bank up the small entrance 
to the cave, which remained so for a year or two. An adjacent 
and similar cave—(in which the bats might have taken refuge 
if they were not all fastened in)—was equally thoroughly 
searched, but without any success. In the opinion of those 
present, a certain gentleman, who was known to have occasion- 
ally visited this cave for specimens, was also partly responsible 
for the extermination of this isolated colony. 
It is reported that this particular Bat still occurs at another 
place a few miles distant. We hope so, but this probably 
ends one of the most interesting of Yorkshire wild mammals. 
Very few Squirrels were to be seen in what appeared to be 
almost a Squirrel’s paradise. This was explained by a game- 
keeper (Mr. Fearnley), that probably their decrease was due 
to a great abundance of Rabbits formerly, which had gnawed 
1915 June 1. 
