l^orhsbire Batuvalists' XTlnion. 



presi&eut: 



WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S., Bradford. 



Ibon. Secretary : 



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



THE 143rd meeting 



WILL BE HELD AT 

 FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



The VALLEY OF THE DEE, the NORTHERN SLOPES 

 OF WHERNSIDE, GRAGRETH, HOLME FELL, etc., 



ON 



Whit=Monday, 22nd May, 1899. 



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 

 Dent Station to Members and Associates of the Y.N.U. producing their signed 

 card of membership. Tickets taken on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, 

 19th to 22nd May inclusive, will be available for return any day up to Tuesday, 

 23rd May. VV here 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 very limited, and much 

 taken up at Whitsuntide, applications by members wishful to spend the week-end 

 in the valley must be made at once. There are private apartments to be let, if 

 instant application be made to Mr. Davidson, Postmaster, Dent, or direct to the 

 innkeepers 



At Dent-IIead is the ' Sportsman's Inn ' ; at Dent are the ' George and Dragon 

 Inn' and 'Sun Inn.' 



WEEK-END HEAD-QUARTERS for members staying the week-end 

 will be at the ' Sun Inn,' Dent. 



Postal Addresses: iJient, Sedbergh, R.S.O., Yorkshire. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The whole Dee valley, the scene of the excursion, 

 is comprised within Sheet 50 (formerly 97 .S.W.) one-inch Ordnance Map, except 

 Holme Fell, which is in Sheet 49 (98 s. e. ). The sheets north of these include the 

 Sedbergh country, which is not in the scojie of the present excursion. Both sheets 

 are to be had geologically coloured. 



Of Books and Papers to consult for the Dent district may be ciled : — 

 Catalogue of Plants growing in the Sedbergh District, by John Handley (price i/-, 

 to be had of author) ; Thompson's Guide to Sedbergh (i/-, Jackson, Sedbergh) has 

 fourteen pages on Dent ; Sunshine and Storm in ihe Dales, by P. H. Lockwood 

 of Sedbergh (3/6, author) ; the Life and Letters of Adam Sedgwick (Cambridge 

 Univ. Press) has two chapters on Dent ; the Geology of the Neighbourhood of 

 Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendal, explanatory of Sheet 98 S.E. (Geol. Survey, 2/-) 

 includes Helm Knott and Holm Fell; also Y.N.U. Programmes for Sedbergh, 

 Nos. 68 and 108 (Sec, Y.N.U., 3d. each to members). The Geological Survey 

 have also published an explanation of Sheet 97 S. W., ' The Geology of the Country 

 round Ingleborough,' 8vo., no pp. (Eyre & Spottiswoode, East Hardinge St., E.C.). 



SATURDAY'S ROUTE.— Mr. John Flandley will lead a party for the 

 investigation of the flora, etc., of Holme Fell, starting from Rashmill at 10 a.m., 

 and working round to Gawthorpe. Rashmill is eight miles from Dent station, 

 three miles from Sedbergh station. 



