l^orkebive IRatutalists' 1Hnion» 



president : 



Prof. MICHAEL FOSTER, M.A., Sec.R.S., Cambridge. 



Ibon. Secretary: 



W. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 259, Hyde Park Road, Leeds. 



Special Ibon. Secretary tor tbis /Ifteeting: 



THOMAS SHEPPARD, 4, High Brighton, Withernsea, Hull. 



THE 140th meeting 



WILL BE A 



THREE DAYS' EXCURSION, 



HELD AT 

 FOR 



SPURN and KILNSEA, 



From SATURDAY to BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY, 



30th JULY to 1st AUGUST, 1898. 



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., 

 Great Central, Midland, and N. E. Railways which have booking arrangements 

 for Withernsea to Members and Associates of the Y.N. U. producing their signed 

 card of Membership. Tickets taken on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, 29th to 

 31st July inclusive, will be available for return any day up to Tuesday, 2nd August. 

 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. 



WEEK-END HEADQUARTERS.— At Easington. Accommodation 

 being very limited, early application for rooms should be made to Mr. Sheppard, 

 who will keep a list of rooms available at Easington and Kilnsea, and allot them 

 to members according to priority of application. If all are taken up, late applicants 

 can find accommodation at Withernsea. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The whole district is included in Sheet 85, One-inch 

 Ordnance Map ; also to be had geologically coloured. The report of the Y. N. U. 

 Excursion to Spurn in 1884 (' Naturalist,' Nov. 1884, pp. 92-3) ; the paper on 

 ' The Spurn ' by J. Cordeaux (' Naturalist,' August, 1884, pp. 1-8); 'The Birds 

 of the Humber District ' by the same author ; and Clarke and Roebuck's 

 ' Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire ' will prove useful. The Geologists should 

 consult Phillips' ' Geology of the Yorkshire Coast ' ; Clement Raid's ' Geology of 

 Holderness ' ; S. V. Wood and J. L. Rome ' On the Glacial and Post-Glacial 

 Structure of Lincolnshire and South-East Yorkshire' (Q.J.G.S., xxiv., 146) ; and 

 G. W. Lamplugh on ' The Bridlington and Dimlington Glacial Shell-beds,' (Geol. 

 Mag., 1881,537-546). 



THE DISTRICT to be investigated is the peninsula of the Spurn and 

 the immediate vicinity of Kilnsea and Easington. 



PERMISSION has been granted by Col. W. Lambert White, J. P. 



LOW TIDES. — At 9 a.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. Monday. 



