l^orhsbire flatuvalists' lUnion. 



president : 



REV. W. FOWLER, M.A., Liversedge. 



Iboiu Seccetanes: 



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

 EDWIN HAWKESWORTH, Goodman Street, Hunslet, Leeds. 



THE 157th meeting 



WILL BE HELD AT 



FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



WELTON, ELLOUGHTON, and BRANTINGHAM DALES, 

 and the southern extremity of the Yorkshire Wolds, 



ON 



WHIT=MON DAY, May 27th, 1901. 



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 

 BROUGH, or FERRIBY, to Members and Associates showing their signed 

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

 surrendering the Certificate noted below. Tickets taken on Saturday, May 25th, 

 or Monday, May 27th, will be available for return any day up to Tuesday, May 

 28th. 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. 



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 at least two days before the date of the Excur- 

 sion, and MUST ENCLOSE a stamped directed envelope and their 

 current card of membership of the Union, which latter will be returned with 

 the Certificate. 



PERMISSION has been kindly granted by Mrs. Wade to visit the Branting- 

 ham Thorpe estate; and by Colonel H. B. Harrison-Broadley, J.P., to visit Welton 

 Dale, with the stipulation that 'no roots of either Flowers or Ferns are to be taken.' 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The district for investigation is entirely comprised 

 within the North-West corner of Sheet 86 (Old Series) of the One-inch Geologically 

 coloured (both for drift and solid) Ordnance Map. The Geology of the country 

 between York and Hull (Geol. Survey .Memoir), 1886. (ieology of parts of North 

 Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire (Geol. Survey Memoir), 1890. Geology of the 

 country between Market Weighton and the I lumber, by F. F. Walton, F.G.S. 

 The Drifts of the Humber Gap (Proc. Yorks. Geol. .Soc), by J. W. Stather, 

 F.G.S. Cryptocleidus in the Kellaways Rock of East Yorkshire, by Thomas 

 Sheppard, F.G.S. (Geol. Mag., 1900), and Notes on the Geology of the Neighbour- 

 hood of Brough, East Yorkshire, by the same writer, in the Naturalist for May, 

 1901. This paper contains a list of previous works dealing with the district. 

 There is an article by E. B. Wrigglesworth, on the Coleoptera of the district, in 

 the 'Naturalist,' vol. 6, pp. 70 — 72. Circulars of previous meetings of the Union in 

 the neighbourhood in 1878 and 1894 may also be consulted. The ' Naturalist ' for 



