1 8 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1 896. 



from the Wakefield district, and it is to be hoped that this example 

 will be followed by other colliery managers in the county. To such, 

 printed instructions for collecting will be forwarded on application to 

 Mr. Kidston at Stirling, or to Mr. W. Cash, the Secretary of the 

 Committee, at Halifax. 



The Yorkshire Boulder Committee have continued their 

 investigations steadily during the year, and Mr. Thos. Tate, F.G.S., 

 the Secretary, states that during the year our knowledge of the 

 Yorkshire glacial deposits has been extended chiefly along the 

 margins of the county, as at Pickering, at Walsden, in Bowland, etc. 

 The Hull Geological Society's East Riding Boulder Committee have 

 completed their Holderness exploration, p.dding 2,600 boulders to 

 those previously recorded. The full report has been duly submitted 

 to the British Association, and will shortly appear in 'The Naturalist.' 

 For the Geological Photographs Committee Mr. J. E. 

 Bedford, F.G.S., its Secretary, reports that excellent work has been 

 done, no less than 139 photographs of Geological subjects having 

 been contributed during the year, entirely by Mr. Godfrey Bingley, 

 the Chairman of the Committee. Of these, 7 1 relate to Yorkshire 

 and 68 to other parts of the Kingdom, and are deposited in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology at Jermyn Street, London, on behalf 

 of the British Association Committee on Geological Photographs. 

 Copies of the Yorkshire views are inserted in the albums belonging 

 to the Union. The photographs which Mr. Bingley has contributed 

 this year to our album are as follows : 18 views of Norber erratics, 10 

 of the Aire dry valley at Malham, i of contorted gypsum beds near 

 Ripon, 2 of fossil trees in a quarry at Headingley, 38 coast views 

 from Flamborough to Scarborough, and 2 coast views at Robin 

 Hood's Bay. The 10 views of the old dry valley of the Aire, above 

 Malham, a niagnificent series, have recently been published in the 

 Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, in 

 illustration of a paper by Mr. Tate, and that Society has arranged to in- 

 clude a further series of Mr. Bingley's photographs in their Proceedings. 

 The Coast Erosion Committee. — The Rev. E. Maule Cole, 

 M.A., the Secretary of this Conunittee, reports that an important 

 landslip occurred at Filey one Sunday in April or May, when 

 thousands of tons of boulder clay at the West End of Carr Naze 

 came down. The cliff top itself sank some 15 feet. In consequence 

 of springs many similar landslips may be expected. All that the 

 sea does is to wash away the debris on the shore. No other 

 observations have been made this year. The similar Committee 

 appointed by the British Association has now ceased to exist. 



Micro-Zoology and Micro- Botany Committee. — Mr. M. 

 H. Stiles, the Secretary, reports that no opportunities have been 



