l^orkebive IFlaturalists' 'lElnion. 



presiDeut : 



GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., Huddersfield. 



Iboiu Secretaries : 



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

 EDWIN HAWKESWORTII, Goodman Street, Hunslet, Leeds. 



THE 152nd meeting 



WILI. BE HKI.D AT 



CROSLAND HALL, 



NEAR HUDDERSFIELD, 



FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



DROP CLOUGH, BL/\CKIV100IIF00T, WESSEflDEN VALLEY, 

 FORD VALLEY, HApEH CLOUGH, and [Neighbourhood, 



ON 



THURSD AY, 28th JU NE, 1900. 



The President invites the Members and Associates participating in this Excursion 

 to take Tea with him at Crosland Hall, and it is essential that Members and 

 Associates intending being present should inform him, direct, not later 

 than June 21st. 



Crosland Hall is close by Healey House Station, L. & Y. Rly., Meltham Branch. 



RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.— Through return tickets at pleasure 

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

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

 HUDDERSFIELD, to Members and Associates of the Y.N. U. showing their 

 signed card of membership at North-Eastern Stations, or (at other companies' 

 stations) surrendering the Certificate noted below. Tickets taken on Wednesday 

 and Thursday, 27th and 2Sth June, will be available for return any day up to 

 Friday, 29th June. Where through bookings are not in operation. Members may 

 book to most convenient junction, and rebook to destination ; the reduced fares 

 being available for each stage of the journey. 



N.B. — The Railway Booking Clerks will only grant these reduced 

 fares to Members and Associates producing a Special Certificate 

 signed by one of the Secretaries of the Union (except at stations on 

 the North-Eastern line, where production of Card of Membership is suffi- 

 cient). Members and Associates wishing for this Certificate must apply 

 to Mr. Hawkesworth for it, and MUST ENCLOSE a stamped directed 

 envelope and their current card of membership of the Union, which latter 

 will be returned with the Certificate. 



As the various parties start from different stations, members are recommended 

 to obtain return tickets for Huddersfield, getting ordinary tickets from there as 

 may be necessary. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The area for investigation is included in Sheet 

 88 of the One Inch Ordnance Map, which may be had geologically coloured. 

 Annotated lists of the fauna and flora, as complete as possible up to date of publica- 

 tion, are contained in Hobkirk's 'History and Natural History of Huddersfield.' 

 Later catalogues of the Lepidoptera (Porritt & Mosley) l/-, MoUusca (Whitwham) 

 6d., &c., have appeared in the ' Trans, of the Huddersfield Nat. Soc' A catalogue 

 of the larger Fungi (Clarke) was issued by the Botanical Society (6d.). There is a 

 small pamphlet on the Vertebrates (Mosley) enumerating all the species (4d. ). 

 Copies of these may be obtained from Mr. C. Mosley, Beaumont Park, Huddersfield. 



