REV. W. H. DALLINGER, LL.D., F.R.S., Pres.R.M.S., Sheffield. 



^ccretance : 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., Sunny Bank, Leeds. 

 WM. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., Headingley, Leeds. 



THE SIXTY-FOURTH MBBTINQ 



WILL BE HELD AT 



PICKERING, 



For the Investigation of 



NEWTON DALE, 



ON 



Bank-Holiday Monday, August 2nd, 1886. 



Railway Arrangements. 



The usual railway arrangements have been made. 

 Routes. 



1. Geological.— -The Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., will leave 

 Levisham Station at 11-18 a.m., for the Hole of Horcum and Winny 

 Neb, returning to Levisham Station in time for the 3-52 p.m. train for 

 Pickering. Total distance, seven to eight miles. 



2. General. — Members will work leisurely up the valley from 

 Pickering to Levisham, a distance of about six miles, returning by 

 the 3-52 p.m. train from Levisham Station ; or, if preferred, members 

 can take the morning train to Levisham Station, and work dozan the 

 valley to Pickering. 



Books and Maps. 



The valley to be investigated is all contained in Sheets 96 N.E. 

 and 96 S.E. of the One-inch Ordnance Map. The Hole of Horcum 

 is just over the border of Sheet 96 N.E., and is shown in Sheet 95 

 N.W. All these sheets are to be had geologically coloured. For 

 further information on botany, reference may be made to J. G. Baker's 

 classic work on ' North Yorkshire.' 



Physical Geography and Geology. 



The Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., writes : — There are five grand 

 dales carved by the rainfall out of the southern slopes of the great 

 East and West anticlinal which forms the summit of the moorlands, 

 viz. : Bilsdale, Bransdale, Farndale, Rosedale, and Newtondale. 

 Of these the first and the last have cut completely through the water- 



