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afterwards the large and excellent collection of Chalk fossils 

 In the Mortimer Museum was inspected. 



Lecturettes on geological subjects have been given at two 

 of the week-end meetings. 



The Geological and Botanical Sections have held .1 joint 

 meeting to discuss certain problems connected with the 

 distribution of plants in the Settle district. 



Glacial Committee. — Mr. J. W. Stather reports ' — 



Roseberry Topping. — Mr. J. J. Burton, J. P., writes that 

 there is now an exposure of a great number of well-marked 

 strise on rock in situ, on the face of Roseberry Topping. The 

 direction of the stria? is towards the S.E. by E. (magnetic 

 compass) and at an elevation of approximately 780 feet. 



Hunmanby. — In The Naturalist for August, page 24S, 

 Mr. T. Sheppard, M.Sc, gives an account of a recent visit to 

 a clay and gravel pit near Hunmanby Station. The beds 

 are described and 26 varieties of boulders noted. No large 

 boulders of chalk were seen. 



Huddersfield. — In The H udder fiseld Naturalist and 

 Photographic Society's Annual Report, just issued, Dr. Wood- 

 head describes some sections in the Spur separating the Colne 

 from the Lees Beck. This shows boulder clay, etc., and 

 indicates with the ice extended southwards beyond the northern 

 bank of the Calder, which is further than was previously 

 supposed. 



COAST EROSION COMMITTEE. 



Mr. J. W. Stather reports : — For obvious reasons, a com- 

 plete report, with details of measurements, is impossible this 

 year. 



Whitby. — Mr. J. T. Sewell reports a large fall of cliff at 

 Whitby in the neighbourhood of the East cliff. 



Bempton. — In June this year, there was a fall of cliff in 

 the neighbourhood of Bempton, said to be the largest within 

 living memory. See The Naturalist, July 1916, page 240. 



Holderness. — The high tides of September made consid- 

 erable inroads into the cliffs immediately south of Bridlington, 

 also at Kilnsea, and other places on the Holderness coast. 



The Affiliated Societies now number thirty-four, having 

 a total membership of 2669. The Brighouse, Lindley and 

 North Eastern Railway Naturalists' Societies have resigned. 



Naturalist, 



