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periodical visits, gives suppers, and on one night each year 
teaches the little Wharfedale devils in Threshfield Grammar 
School. But we don’t believe it. No sane person would leave 
Upper Wharfedale for any place Old Pam could offer. And 
insane persons he doesn’t cater for. 
With more or less poetic feelings, therefore, most of the 
members arrived at Arncliffe on Friday evening, but ‘ost their 
sentiment in the scramble for beds. On the morrow, however, 
the high moorlands were ascended, and from their tops the 
Photo by R. Fortune. 
River Skirfare below Arncliffe. 
valleys and nestling stone-built villages appeared typical ot 
peace and rest: 
A region of repose it seems. 
A place of slumber and of dreams, 
Remote among the wooded hills, 
For there no noisy railway speeds, 
and we hope one never will. 
But the Yorkshire Naturalists were bent on work. Many 
were astir long before breakfast, and most remained out as long 
as the light allowed ; a few stayed longer.. The evenings were 
profitably spent. On Saturday the Vicar, the Rev. W. A, 
Shuffrey, read some valuable notes on the Botany of Littondale 
(see pp. 354-356), and Mr. W. Denison Roebuck gave an 
account of ‘Yorkshire Hemiptera.’ He also noted some 
recent additions to the list of Hymenoptera of the county. 
At this excursion,,too, the sectional recorders were well in 
evidence, and each took charge of his department. Littondale 
had not previously been visited by the Union, and consequently 
the district was of more than usual interest, and in view of an. 
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