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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT GUISBOROUGH. 



At the Avigust meetings at Loftus in Cleveland, last year, 

 some discussion took place as to the source of the iron in the 

 Cleveland ironstone, and it was sug-g-ested that one of the 

 meeting's in 1906 should be held within the ironstone area, and 

 further consideration given to this subject. Guisboroug-h was 

 according-ly fixed as the centre for this year's August meeting, 

 and a good number of the members of the Union arrived on the 

 17th, augmented by a large contingent from the Cleveland 

 Naturalists' Field Club on the i8th. Certain routes had been 

 mapped out by the local Divisional Secretary which would have 

 given good ground for all the sections to pursue their investiga- 

 tions, but unfortunately, owing to the refusal of the respective 

 owners of the Chaloner Estate and the Hutton Estate to permit 

 the members to pass on their property, the proposed arrange- 

 ments were necessarily abandoned, and some of the sections 

 were unable to work advantageously. It is regrettable that a 

 plea of disturbance of game, off the breeding season, should be 

 set up to prevent an important scientific association like the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union pursuing its investigations, and it 

 is sincerely to be hoped that the almost universal welcome and 

 assistance which has been so freely given for so many years to 

 the Union by the landowners all over the county may continue, 

 and that the present case may remain eminently exceptional. 



Under the leadership of the Divisional Hon. Secretary, Mr. 

 J. J. Burton, and Mr. F. Allison, for the geologists ; Mr. Baker 

 Hudson and Mr. T. A. Lofthouse for other sections, the route up 

 Bulman's Banks was taken past the first alum works in England, 

 where a brief halt was made, and the history of the starting of 

 the industry by smuggling some of the Pope's workmen into this 

 country was given. By a footpath Highcliffe was reached, and 

 the magnificent view gave sufficient excuse for a rest after the 

 stiff climb. Here at a height of about 1000 feet gravel deposits 

 were observed, and some of the Glacial phenomena so well 

 described by Professor Kendall and others were noticed. On 

 the way between Highcliffe and Roseberry Topping- a halt was 

 called, and Mr. Allison produced a number of beautifully 

 prepared sections of the strata of the whole ironstone field, 

 made by his father, the late Mr. Thomas Allison, from records 

 of boreholes and shafts sunk in the district. The sections 

 were explained by Mr. Allison, and enabled the members to 

 obtain, in a very graphic manner, a complete knowledge of the 



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