CiRC. 157. 



July, 1878, pp. 190 — 192, contains a full report of the Union's first meeting at 

 Brough, and notes on the species obtained. 



WEEK-END ARRANGEMENTS.— The Head-quarters of the Union 

 will be at the Station Hotel, Brough, E. Yorks. , R.S.O. Week-end terms, 15/-, 

 including dinner, Saturday evening; breakfast, luncheon, dinner, Sunday; break- 

 fast, Monday; bed and attendance. The accommodation is limited, and it will be 

 necessary for some members to occupy double-bedded rooms. Applications must 

 be made direct to the Proprietor not later than May 20th. 



MONDAY'S ROUTES.— 



I. — The geologists, under the leadership of Messrs. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. , 

 and Thos. Sheppard, F.G.S. , will start from Ferriby Station, on arrival of the 9-42 

 train from the West, and will be joined later by those arriving by the 10-21 train 

 from Hull. They will proceed to examine the terminal moraine of the North Sea 

 glacier, then walk, by way of Welton, to see the sections in the Gravels, Kellaways 

 Rock, and Millepore Limestone on Mill Hill, and visit the Gravel Pits near 

 Elloughton. 



2. — The general body of naturalists, under the leadership of Messrs. R. H. 

 Philip, J. Fraser Robinson, and Chas. Waterfall, will start from Brough Station, 

 on arrival of 9-36 (West) train, and proceed up Welton Dale, returning down 

 Elloughton Dale, by way of the Cockle Pits, to Brough, and, if time permits, 

 examine the Humber foreshore west of Brough. 



THE DISTRICT.— Mr. R. H. Philip writes :— The traveller from the 

 west, on alighting at Brough Station, finds himself at the base of the low ridge of the 

 Chalk Wolds running north and south through Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The 

 gap in this ridge, through which the Humber has cut its way, lies close at hand on his 

 right, and beyond the river he can see the continuation of the ridge on the Lincoln- 

 shire side. Before him the low hills are seamed with a number of dales running up 

 into their recesses. The three southernmost of these, Welton Dale, Elloughton 

 Vale, and Brantingham Dale are the district intended for this excursion. They 

 radiate from Brough more or less like the fingers of a spread hand, so that it will be 

 possible to ascend one and crossing over the higher land at the dale head to return 

 down one of the others. From Mount Airy, on the north and from Spout Hill on 

 the south of Brantingham Dale, it is .said that the towers of York and Lincoln 

 Cathedrals can be seen on a clear day. Days clear enough for this are rare, but in 

 any case a wide and beautiful prospect of the course of the Humber for many miles 

 will reward the ascent. 



GEOLOGY. — This section will be officially represented by Mr. Thos. Shep- 

 pard, F.G.S., one of its secretaries, and the Boulder Committee by Mr. J. H. 

 Howarth, F.G.S., its convener. 



Mr. Thos. Sheppard, F.G.S., writes : — To the student of Geology the district 

 offers many attractions, as regards both the variety of sections visible in the neigh- 

 bourhood and their exceptionally interesting nature. On the Humber bank at 

 North Ferriby is, perhaps, one of the best exposures in a terminal moraine to be 

 met with in the North of England, inasmuch a complete transverse section is visible 

 shewing the general shape of the mound, as well as its structure and contents. This 

 is a good collecting ground for Scandinavian rocks. The section is repeated at 

 South Ferriby on the opposite bank of the Humber, which shews that at one time 

 the East British Ice Sheet stretched across the estuary at this point. This would 

 in all probability be the cause of an extra-morainic lake being formed, with which 

 some of the gravel at Brough may be connected. These sections have been 

 described in detail by Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. At Brough there are three dis- 

 tinct gravels. One on the low ground on the Cave road (Prescott's Pit), is principally 

 composed of slightly water-worn flat pieces of Millepore Oolite, and contains no 

 mammalian remains. On Mill Hill there are two gravels; the upper bed consists 

 chiefly of chalk and flint with occasional Liassic, etc. , fossils, and below it (though 

 a section is not at present visible), is a compact ferruginous gravel, consisting of 

 Carboniferous sandstone with rootlets, etc. , derived from the west, and containing 

 many mammalian remains. From this bed the writer has obtained bones, teeth, 

 €tc., of Elephas pri??iigemits, Elephas an/iqiins, Bison prisats. Bos primigenius, 

 Ctrvus sp. ?, Ce7-vus elaphtis. and Eqitiis caballus. There is a fine boulder of 

 Augite syenite in this pit at the present time, which is the westernmost record for 

 this rock. Lower down the hill is a good section of the Kellaways Sands, capped 

 by a thin bed of drift. In this rock casts of characteristic Kellaways fossils occur. 



