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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT SELBY. 



The Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union was held at Selby, by invitation of the Selby Scientific 

 Society, on Saturday, December 2nd, 1916. 



The members who arrived in the morning paid a visit 

 to Brayton Barff, an outlyer of sandstone left behind whilst 

 the great mass of Trias, which once existed where the vale 

 of York is, was being denuded. The geological features of 

 the Barff were fully described by Mr. Thomas Sheppard, M.Sc, 



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Yorkshire Naturalists at Selby. 



[W. Farley. 



in the circular convening the Annual Meeting, and reference 

 might also be made to the same gentleman's report of the 

 visit of the Geological section of the Union to the same locality 

 in June, 1915 (see p. 264 of The Naturalist, 1915). A collection 

 of the glacial erratics, and other pebbles, obtained at the 

 Barff was placed on exhibition by Mr. J. F. Musham, F.E.S. 

 On their return, the members were photographed, and by the 

 kindness of Mr. W. Farley, the result is reproduced in these 

 pages. 



Mr. C. A. Cheetham writes : — The small party of botanists 

 who joined the geological excursion to Brayton Barff was 

 well repaid. The vegetation of this hill would be an interesting 

 study for the local society. It appears to be the remains 



Naturalist, 



