228 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT ROBIN HOOD'S BAY. 



Terebratula bilineata and other characteristic fossils were secured. 

 The party now separated, the members of the Hull Geological 

 Society and others who had to return to Scarborough accompanying 

 Mr. Hudleston to Blea Wyke, and subsequently ascending the cliff 

 to Peak Station ; the rest, including the ladies, who formed a fair 

 contingent, descending to the scars in Robin Hood's Bay, under the 

 leadership of the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S., President of 

 the Geological Section of the Union, and walking to Bay Town, 

 where they took train for Whitby. En route, Mr. Cole pointed out 

 the way in which the reefs of the two zones of the Lower Lias, 

 A. bucklandi and A. oxynotus, repeated themselves on each side of 

 the Bay, and took the opportunity of explaining the configuration 

 of the moorlands of North-East Yorkshire, and showing how the 

 beautiful dales on each side of the anticlinal, stretching from beyond 

 Burton Head (1,420 ft.) to Peak, had been carved out by the 

 rainfall, exposing on their sides various beds of the Lias, underneath 

 a more or less superficial covering of Estuarine Sandstones of the 

 Inferior Oolite. Some fine blocks of Shap Granite were noticed on 

 the shore, brought, no doubt, by the Stainmoor Glacier, and it was 

 pointed out by a gentleman familiar with the Shap quarries that one 

 very large mass of granite, somewhat finely grained, came from the 

 outer edge of the Shap granite, whereas the more familiar blocks, 

 with large crystals of felspar, are derived from the interior of the 

 granite. 



It is not often that the meetings of the Union are held on the 

 sea-coast, so in framing the programme it was felt that special 

 opportunities should be given to the Marine Zoology Committee for 

 pursuing their investigations. In this matter the secretaries were 

 assisted by Major Woodall, who most kindly placed his steam 

 yacht and trawl at their disposal. The Secretary of the Com- 

 mittee, accompanied by three other members, availed themselves 

 of Major Woodall's kindness. They left Scarborough soon after 

 10.30 a.m., and landed at Whitby in time for the tea and meetings. 



Owing to the last available train leaving Whitby at 6.5, tea was 

 served at the early hour of 4 p.m., at the Station Hotel, and after the 

 meetings of the various sections, the general meeting was held under 

 the presidency of the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S., who, in 

 the absence of Mr. W. H. Hudleston, kindly filled that office. 

 The minutes of the last meeting having been taken as read and 

 approved, the following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Union : — Joshua Fountain, Filey ; Thomas Taylor, Whitby ; John A. 

 Tate, F.C.S., Whitby; and Rev. Egbert Fox-Thomas, Sneaton Castle, 

 Whitby. The attendance included representatives of the following 



Naturalist. 



