l^orksbiue IRatuvalists' ITlnion. 



president: 



Prof. W. BOYD DAWKINS, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., etc., Manchester. 



1bon. Secretary: 



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



1bon. Secretarg for tbis /Ifteeting: 



ARTHUR CRABTREE, West Hill, Halifax. 



THE 131st meeting 



WILL BE HELD AT 



COTHERSTONE, 



¥OK THE INVESTIGATION OF 



THE VALLEY OF THE BALDER, 



ON 



WH IT-MONDAY, JUNE 7th, 1897. 



RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.— Through return tickets at pleasure 

 party rates will be issued at all stations on the G N., H. &B., L. & Y., L. & N.W., 

 M. S. & L., Midland, and N. E. Railways which have booking arrangements for 

 Barnard Castle, Lartington, Bowes, Cotherstone, Romaldkirk, Mickleton, or 

 Middleton-in-Teesdale, with leave to break journey at any of these stations, to 

 Members and Associates of the Y.N. U. producing their signed card of Membership. 

 Tickets taken on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, June 4th to 7th inclusive, 

 will be available for return up to Tuesday, June 8th. Where through bookings are 

 not in operation, Members may book to most convenient junction, and re-book to 

 destination, the reduced fares being available for each stage of the journey. 



HOTEL ACCOMMODATION.— As this is limited and the district much 

 visited at holiday times, Members should write for rooms for the week-end at once. 



At Middleton-in-Teesdale are 'Ye Cleveland Arms,' the 'Foresters' Arms,' 

 the ' King's Head,' the 'Talbot,' and the 'Temperance Commercial' Hotels. The 

 Inns at and near High Force are probably already booked, and Barnard Castle 

 should be avoided altogether by reason of the Cyclists' Meet there on Whit-Monday. 



The headquarters of the Union will be at ' Ye Cleveland Arms,' where the 

 Secretaries have already had reserved the available accommodation from Saturday 

 to Monday. Application for this to be at once made to Mr. Crabtree, Halifax. 



Members desiring to pass the week-end at Cotherstone itself should com- 

 municate with the Station-Master there at once. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— 



Cotherstone and the Lower Balder and Lower Teesdale are in Sheet 32 (103 

 S.W.), of the one-inch ordnance map, which is also published geologically coloured 

 (both ' solid ' and ' drift '). The upper parts of the Balder and of Upper Teesdale 

 are in Sheet 31 (102 S.E. ), and Cronkley is in Sheet 25 (102 N.E.). The Balder 

 Valley is in Sheets 4 and 5 of the Six -inch Map. Reference may also be made to 

 Baker's North Yorkshire, both editions ; ' The Flora of Teesdale,' 1883 (Atkinson, 

 Market Place. Barnard Castle) ; 'The Musci and Hepaticte of Teesdale,' by Richd. 

 Spruce (Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed.); 'Teesdale Botany,' by James Backhouse (Nat., 

 1884, p. 10) ; ' Avi-Fauna of Upper Teesdale,' by James Backhouse (Nat., 1885, 

 p. 353, and 1888, p. 79) ; and to James Backhouse's recently published ' Upper 

 Teesdale, Past and Present,' 1896, price l/- (Atkinson, Barnard Castle). For 

 Geology refer to Phillips' 'Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire,' pp. 

 17, 18, 45, 51, 190 of Ed. 2 ; 'Geology of High Teesdale,' by Prof Sedgwick 



