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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT BRIDLINGTON. 



The 237th gathering of the Union was held at Bridhngton at 

 Whitsuntide, May 25th to 27th. It is regrettable that the 

 excursions were so sparseley attended, and unofficially repre- 

 sented, especially considering the excellent local arrangements 

 made by Messrs. J. W. Stather and Thomas Sheppard. The 

 weather was ideal, and it was thought that at least on the 

 Monday's excursion the Societies in the East and West Ridings 

 would have been better represented. ■ However, if the atten- 

 dances at the excursions were meagre (twenty on Saturday and 

 thirty on Monday), good work was done by many. 



The headquarters were at the Station Hotel, Bridhngton, 

 where a room was set apart for the use of the members, 

 in which the meetings on the evenings of Saturday and Monday 

 were held. 



On Saturday, the geologists, under the guidance of Messrs. 

 Sheppard and Stather, investigated the coast sections between 

 Bridlington and South Landing, and on Monday, under the 

 guidance of the same gentlemen, journeyed to Flamborough 

 by train, and examined the chffs from Thornwick Bay 

 onwards to the South Landing. The botanists on Saturday 

 visited Boynton Woods, under the guidance of Mr. J. F. Robin- 

 son, who was ably assisted by Mr. Hannah, the Steward in 

 charge of the Boynton Estate. On Monday, with the same 

 leader, Mr. Robinson, they journeyed to Flamborough by 

 train, and, after watching the egg-chmbers at work on the 

 cliiSs at Buckton and Bempton, worked back to Bridlington 

 by way of Danes' Dyke Ravine. 



At the evening meeting on Saturday, the President occu- 

 pied the chair. Mr. Thomas Sheppard, F.G.S., read a paper 

 on ' The Evolution of Bridlington.' After giving an excellent 

 resume of the geological formations on which the town is 

 built, and also of those in its immediate vicinity, he dealt 

 briefly with the growth of the town from very early times to 

 the present day. In addition, he read extracts from old books 

 in his possession, dating back to the middle of the seventeenth 

 century, relative to local government, the local industries, 

 and the tokens issued by many of the tradesmen of those days. 



Of great interest was the exhibition by Mr. Sheppard of 

 his collection of geological and antiquarian' views of Bridling- 

 ton and district. 



Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S., followed with a brief account of 

 his investigations on ' Moorlog : an interesting chapter in the 

 history of the North Sea.' 'Moorlog' is a. compact peat, 

 brought up in pieces twelve to eighteen inches thick, in the 

 nets of trawlers when working along the northern escarpment 

 of the Dogger Bank, from a depth of about twenty 



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