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ROUTES.— 



I. — The general body of naturalists will, under the leadership of Messrs. F. Batley, 

 W. E. Brady, E. G. Bayford, J. Armitage, and A. Whitaker, leave the Queen's 

 Hotel, Barnsley, at 10-30 a.m., and proceed to Locke Park, where the party 

 may divide and take the following directions : — • 



Ia. — Ouselthwaite, Worsborough Reservoir, Rockley Abbey and Dam, 

 Broom Royd, Friartail, Green Springs, and Old Park Woods, to Bird- 

 well Station, returning by the 3-51 p.m. train to Barnsley. 

 Ib. — Rob Royd and Stainborough Park, rejoining the other party at 

 Rockley Dam. 

 II. — The Geological party will leave the Queen's Hotel at 10-30 a.m., and will be 

 led by Messrs. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., W. Hemingway, E. W. Thirkell, 

 J. Tomlinson, and H. Wade, and will devote themselves to the glacial pheno- 

 mena of the district. They will visit the Old Mill Gasworks and proceed by 

 way of Smithy Green to a section at East Gawber Colliery : a 36-ft. section 

 in Staincross Railway cutting will be examined, and the party may proceed for- 

 ward to Royston and Notton Green and examine the valley or depression 

 between the latter place and Carlton. The arrangements are not quite complete 

 and this route is subject to subsequent alteration. 

 PERMISSION to visit their estates is kindly granted by Mr. T. V. 

 Wentworth, Mr. H. J. Elmhirst, and other landowners. 



GEOLOGY. — Mr. E. W. Thirkell writes : — The district to be investigated is 

 the Dearne Valley from Barnsley to Haigh, covering Carlton, Roystone, etc. Two 

 special features of this district, to which the attention of the party should be 

 directed, are (i.) The Glacial deposits ; (ii.) The escarpment of the WooUey-edge 

 Rock. 



(I.) Boulder clay and warp occurs in patches about Staincross and Royston ; 

 a section may be seen in a railway cutting (about three-quarters of a mile S. E. of 

 Staincross) crossing the Barnsley and Wakefield road near the old toll-gate, between 

 Standhill and North Royd Woods ; another patch occurs to the N E. of Royston, 

 extending from Low Common nearly to the station ; and another half-a-mile to the 

 east of Royston Church. Boulders have been found at Notton Green and at 

 Royslon ; that from Royston has been removed to Locke Park, Barnsley. Besides 

 the Boulder clay, a few patches of gravel occur which perhaps belong to the 

 Glacial deposits. They have been noticed in Woolley Park, between Royston and 

 Notton Park, and about half a-mile S.W. of Carlton : they bear a close resemblance 

 to gravel seen in the cutting alluded to above. 



(II. ) This rock overlies the Wath Wood, Woodmoor or Meltonfield coal seam, 

 and the outcrop of this seam and of the seams below it may be looked for between 

 the escarpment and the railway at convenient places. The Beamshaw seam is 

 worked from the day, and the 'adit ' will probably be passed on the round, and the 

 Barnsley seam is also worked from the day at Woolley Colliery. The line of the 

 escarpment is very pronounced, but an interesting feature about it is that it is cut off 

 at a fault at Burton bank and is continued again at the other side of the fault. This 

 fault runs in a line nearly along the strike and crosses the Wakefield road and 

 Burton bank. A good section of the Rock may be obtained in the quarries, and 

 plant remains are t airly plentiful. 



Mr. II. B. Nash adds : — The country for five miles round Barnsley is occu- 

 pied almost exclusively by Middle Coal Measures, and all the workable seams from 

 the Shafton to the Whinmoor are being got at one point or another within that 

 area. From the heapsteads at most of the collieries good specimens of Coal Measure 

 fossils, as described in the reports of the Yorkshire Fossil Flora Committee, may 

 be obtained. Escarpments of the Oaks and Woolley Edge Rocks are prominent 

 features and locally striking, being fairly continuous for long distances, as is also 

 the Upper Chevet Rock, which is cut off by a fault a little south of Royston station. 

 TravelliiiT in a north-easterly direction, nearly all the beds are crossed in the order 

 of their formation. The strike of the beds is steadily from north-west to south- 

 east. Tlie faults range either rudely parallel or else nearly at right angles to the 

 strike of the beds. Boulder clay occurs between Royston and Mapplewell, and 

 erratic blocks have been found at a few spots, but they are not very prolific. 



