l^orksbire Baturalists' XTlttion. 



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



1bon. SecretaiT : 



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



THE 144th meeting 



WILL BE HELD AT 



TADCASTER, 



FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



STUTTON CARRS, GRIMSTON PARK, JACKDAW CRAG 

 QUARRY, and PART OF TOWTON BATTLEFIELD, 



ON 



SATURDAY, lOth JUNE, 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 

 Tadcaster, Newton Kyme, Stutton, Ulleskelf, or Church Fenton, to Members and 

 Associates of the Y.N.U. producing their signed card of membership. Tickets 

 taken on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, 9th to 12th June inclusive, will 

 be available for return any day up to Tuesday, 13th June. The journey may be 

 broken at any of these stations. 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.— Members wishing to spend the week- 

 end will find ample accommodation at the Londesborough Hotel, Tadcaster. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The whole district is in Sheet 70 (formerly 93 

 S.w.) one-inch Ordnance Map (also published geologically coloured), and also falls 

 within Sheets 190 and 205 of the six-inch map. 



Published information is but scanty. A list of Neuroptera and Trichoptera 

 observed near Tadcaster, by Mr. F. G. Binnie, Was printed in the Naturalist, 

 Nov., 1897, pp. 349-351. A list of Mosses of Tadcaster District, by Mr. W. 

 Ingham. B.A., was printed in the Naturalist for April, 1899, pp. 117-122. The 

 Geological Survey Memoir may be referred to. Ijut the references to this district 

 in Davis and Lees' ' West Yorkshire ' are wanting in detail. 



ROUTES. — Trains reach Church Fenton from Sheffield at 8-49 a.m., from 

 Leeds and Harrogate at 9-27 a.m., from Normanton at 9-35 a.m., from Doncaster 

 at 9-47 a.m., and from York at 10-2 a.m. 



I. — The main body of naturalists will leave Church Fenton station on the arrival 

 10-2 a.m. train from York (members arriving earlier would do well to search the 

 ditches and ponds west and north of the station), proceed straight to Kirkby 

 Wharfe, then work westwards through Grimston Park and Stutton Carrs to Jack- 

 daw Crag Quarry, and thence to Tadcaster. Mr. W. Galium, M.A., Mr. Edwin 

 Payne, Mr. Wm. Nelson, etc., will act as guides. 



11. — Lepidopterists will proceed to Stuth<n Station by trains arriving at 8-25, 

 9-20, and 10-57 a.m., and at once proceed to investigate the neighbourhood. 

 Mr. C. Bennett will act as guide. 



