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The rest of the party trained to Guisborough, and after 
inspecting the Church, and the Bruce Cenotaph, was led by 
Mr. T. A. Lofthouse to the Skelton valley, and was soon ab- 
sorbed in its floral wealth and beauties, the arboreal features 
being especially magnificent. A thunderstorm of two hours’ 
duration made all seek shelter within one of the coniferous belts, 
and when the storm clouds had passed the sunshine once again 
heartened, and the full programme was accomplished. 
At the subsequent meeting the President of the Union 
(Mr. Riley Fortune, F’.Z.S.) occupied the chair, and reports upon 
the work accomplished were given as follows :—Geology, Mr. 
Burton ; Vertebrate Zoology, Mr. H. B. Booth; Conchology, 
Mr. Greevz Fysher; Lepidoptera, Mr. T. A. Lofthouse ; 
Coleoptera, Mr. M. L. Thompson; Fungi, Miss C. A. Cooper ; 
Flowering Plants, Mr. Wattam. Hearty thanks were accorded 
Mr. Burton for his services in making the local arrangements, 
to Earl Zetland, Colonel W. H. A. Wharton and Mr. Burton 
for permission to visit their estates, to Sir Joseph Walton, M.P., 
for the privilege of visiting the grounds of Rushpool Hall, and 
to the guides.—W. E. L. W. 
The following reports are to hand :— 
GEoLoGy.—Mr. J. J. Burton, F.G.S., writes :—The object 
set before the Geological section was to observe the sequence 
of strata between the top beds of the Lower Lias and the Moor 
Grit of the Lower Oolites, the whole of which were exposed 
within the area marked out for the week-end excursions. 
Some little confusion is apt to be experienced unless it is 
remembered that paleontologists have adopted different 
divisions between the Upper and Middle and the Middle and 
Lower Lias from those marked by the Geological Survey; the 
latter have made the divisions entirely on lithological grounds, 
the former on the grouping of representative fossils. It is 
convenient to follow the Survey and place the Jamesoni zone 
in the Lower Lias, which zone the party had the opportunity of 
seeing at the base of Huntcliff where the anticline brings it up 
from, below the shore level. The tide being favourable it was 
easy to examine the section which was found to consist of shales 
and dogger, the latter apparently ferruginous and very hard. 
The characteristic ammonite was not observed, but Belemuite 
elegans and Gryphea obliquata were plentiful. The cliffs 
here are almost vertical and therefore any hammer-work 
except on the exposed shales and fallen rocks on the beach was 
impossible, but the lithological sequence of the strata up 
through the sandy series to the jet rock could be plainly seen 
and the numerous blocks which had fallen, chiefly from the 
margaritatus zone,, enabled the party to see the nature of the 
rocks and to observe the masses of fossils crowding them, 
1915 Oct. 1. 
