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and the greater part of a skeleton of a saurian {Cryptacleidiis) has been recently 

 found there. At the north end of Prescott's Pit is a deep section in the Millepore 

 Oolite which has been recently made. The change from the solid rock into rubble 

 and finally into gravel is well shewn, and it is to be hoped that photographs of this 

 section will be secured. Further to the north, at the 'Cockle Pits,' is another 

 section in the Millepore Oolite, where a few fossils may be obtained. Members 

 staying the week-end will have an opportunity of seeing the Kellaways Rock, 

 Millepore Oolite and Chalk in the Railway Cutting at South Cave, and also the 

 curious mass of chalk breccia in Drewton Dale, known as St. Austin's Stone. 



BOTANY. — This section will be officially represented by Messrs. T. W. 

 Woodhead, F.L.S., and Chas. Waterfall (Phanerogamic), and Mr. J. J. Marshall 

 (Cryptogamic), Secretaries. 



Mr. J. Fraser Robinson writes : — The route projected for Whit-Monday is a 

 pleasant and interesting one of some six or seven miles, and includes an alluvial 

 tract bordering on the Humber, together with outcrops of crumbling gravelly oolitic 

 rocks, and the chalk wolds. The villages .to be visited are cosy and picturesque, 

 characters common as a rule to East Yorkshire villages. To visitors from the other 

 Ridings the plant associations strike one as having also characters quite their own, 

 and these generally betokening the xerophilous type (dry-loving). The alluvium and 

 gravelly soil is prolific in plants such as Sisyvibriiim Thalianuin, Erophila vulgaris 

 ( Teesdalia grows a few miles away on the same tract and should be looked for at 

 Brough), Reseda hitea, Viola hirta {vs.xs.), V. sylvestris, Saponaj'ia officinalis, Cer- 

 astiutn seinidecandnini, Sagina nodosa. Geranium pyrenaicmn, Euonyinus europceus, 

 and Rhaninus catharficiis with Daphne lanreola in the hedges and woods. At Ray- 

 well, near the route, grow Vicia sylva'ica and Campanula latifolia, whilst on the 

 chalk Poteriiiiit sanguisorba (dry) and P. officinale, the latter rare in the East 

 Riding, in a damp spot near the ' Cockle Pits.' Near the same place is the single 

 East Riding station for Astragalus glycyphylhts. Both of the East Riding Saxi- 

 frages — Saxifraga tridaclylites, on gravels and mud-topped walls, and 6". granulata 

 in gravelly meadows, will be met with. Seduin acre surmounts all the mud- 

 topped walls above mentioned. Bryonia dioica, Apiuin graveolens (near the 

 Humber), Cnicns eriophorus, Primula acaulis x veris, Anagallis tenella, Verbascum 

 Thapsus, Ballota nigra, Alarnibiian znilgare, Scleranthns anniius, Carpinus bttulns, 

 Epipactis latifolia, and E. palustris (leaf only), Orchis morio and 0. ustulaia, 

 Carex verna, Lolium temulentum, and Lepturus filiforme {'Cat latter on the Hum- 

 ber fore-shore), etc., etc., are also to be seen. 



Mosses. — Mr. J. J. Marshall writes: — The information respecting the district 

 to be traversed is very meagre. The following list is taken chiefly from Dr. 

 Parsons' 'Moss Flora of the East Riding.'; Pottia //^/w« (Brough), Tortula 

 aloides, T. laznpila, Barbula hornscliuchiana, B. convoluta, Zygodon viridissi/mis, 

 Physcomitrium pyriformc, A^eckera crispa (Woodale, South Cave), Eurhynchium 

 piliferum. Of these, Pottia heimii, usually a seaside moss, and Neckera crispa 

 are the only localities on record for Vice county 6i. S. E. Yorks. I think Seligeria 

 cakarea and S. paucifolia, both of which have been recently discovered on the chalk 

 in several places, should be found, also Fissidens exigines, on shady clay banks. 



Fungi. — No records. 



Diatoms. — Mr. R. H. Philip writes : — The most interesting and characteristic 

 forms of this district will be found in the springs which here and there gush up from 

 the Chalk Wolds. The most common form in these is Diatoma hyemale and var. 

 mesodon, but Campylodiscus hiberiiicns, Surirella spiralis, Cymbella ehrenberghii, 

 Melosira arenaria, Fragilaria harrisonii, Pleurosigma attenuaiun, and other in- 

 teresting forms may be met with. The ditches in the low-lands were recently full 

 of the pretty Meridian circidarc and several species of Navicula, Gonphoitenia, 

 Staicroneis, and Surirella. 



VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY.— This section will be officially represented 

 by its President, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F. L.S., and its Secretaries, Messrs. 

 Riley Fortune, F.Z..S., and K. McLean. 



Mr. F. Boyes writes: — Most of the district being strictly preserved it will 

 depend considerably on the watchfulness of the gamekeepers whether some of the 

 predaceous birds are present or not. 



Mammalia. — The Fox, Stoat, Weasel, Brown Rat, Mole, Shrew, Hedgehog, 

 Hare, Rabbit, Squirrel, Longtailed Field Vole, Noctule (?) and Pipistrelle Bats 

 have all been observed. 



