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textile goods assume importance in three small areas — around Leeds, 

 Huddersfield, and to the west of Halifax. 



For obvious reasons, a base map of a limited number of related facts was 

 essential as a background to the circular graphs — accordingly the latter have 

 been drawn on a map (i : 63,360) showing the area of the worked coalfield 

 (List of Mines) as distinct from the Coal Measure outcrop, and the signi- 

 ficant breaks of slope. 



To develop the material on the textile industry further, a second map of 

 circular graphs, using the total number of textile workers as the basis, and 

 having angular divisions proportional to the number engaged in the indi- 

 vidual processes, has been prepared, with the object of examining whether 

 processes have any development of regional specialisation similar to that 

 of the Lancashire region. A specialised distribution of finished products 

 has frequently been noted, but attention is here directed to processes, not 

 products. 



This map reveals that in some cases a regional specialisation does exist — 

 for example, dyeing is localised in two districts, one around Guiseley and 

 the other in the neighbourhood of Halifax ; again, finishing is confined to 

 two areas, around Guiseley and southwards from Halifax to New Mill ; 

 doubling is mainly in the Calder Valley, while combing is most important 

 in the north-western part of the textile region, as one might expect, since 

 this is the worsted area ; winders are more numerous in the south-western 

 part of the region, while spinners and weavers are present throughout, 

 though in the Calder Valley spinning is relatively of greater importance than 

 elsewhere, and some degree of specialisation in weaving occurs in the districts 

 to the immediate south and west of Leeds. 



Comparisons will be drawn with the textile region of Lancashire, which 

 has been mapped and studied on similar lines. 



Afternoon. 

 Excursion to Howden, to study ' Warping ' in the Vale of York. 



Saturday, September 3. 



Excursion to the Vale of Pickering, Scarborough and Flamborough 

 Head, returning via the Wolds. 



Sunday, September 4. 



Excursion to Boroughbridge (Isurium), Richmond, Swaledale, 

 Wensleydale and Ripon. 



Monday, September 5. 



Dr. Vaughan Cornish. — Esthetic principles of town and country planning. 



The hygiene of Town and Country Planning has long been studied in a 

 scientific way, but in regard to aesthetic amenity it has been tacitly assumed 

 that any educated and cultured person is equipped with the necessary 

 knowledge. This assumption is entirely erroneous, for, in fact, the condi- 

 tions which determine scenic beauty can only be ascertained by systematic 



