l^ovhsbire Baturaliste' Xnnioiu 



(president : 



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



Ibon. Secretaries: 



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

 EDWIN HAWKESWORTII, Goodman Street, Hunslet, Leeds. 



THE 159th meeting 



WILL BK HELD AT 



WETHERBY, 



FOR lllli INVEiTIGATIOX OF 



The WHARFE from COLLINGHAM BRIDGE to FLINT MILL. 

 STOCKELD PARK, LINTON, etc., 



ON 



SATURDAY, JULY 20th, 1901. 



(MONDAY being- found extremely inconvenient, the date is altered) 



RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.— Through return tickets at pleasure 

 parly 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 

 WETHERBY, COLLINGHAM BRIDGE or THORP ARCH, to Mem- 

 bers 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 Friday or Saturday, July 19th or 20th, will be available for return 

 any day up to Monday, July 22nd. 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 the Secretary of the Union (except at Stations on the North- 

 Eastern line, where production of Card of Membership is sufficient). 

 Members and Associates wishing for this Certificate must apply to Mr. 

 Hawkesworth for it at least two days before the date of the Excursion, and 

 MUST ENCLOSE a stamped directed envelope and their current card of 

 membership of the Union, which latter will be returned with the Certificate. 

 In case of no through booking Members must apply for an additional 

 Certificate. 



PERMISSION is kindly granted by Col. Sir Robert Gunter, Bart., M.P., 

 for his Wetherby estate ; Mr. George Faber, for the Ainsty estate ; Mr. Robert J. 

 Foster, f<jr Stockeld Park ; and Mr. T. B. Matthews, for the grounds and woods 

 of Thorp Arcli Hall. Permission is granted with the express condition of there 

 being no dislurl>ance of game, nor pulling up roots of ferns or rare plants. The 

 N.E. Ry. Co. have also given permission for the geologists to examine the sections 

 at the Wetherby New Station works, at their own personal risk. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The entire field of the excursion is included in 

 Sheet 70 (93 .S. W., old series) of the One-Inch Ordnance Map, which may be had 

 geologically coloured. The memoir describing that sheet, 'Geology of the Car- 

 boniferous Rocks North and East of Leeds, and the Permian and Triassic Rocks 

 about Ta<icaster,' by Aveline, Green, Dakyns, Ward and Russell, 1870, price 6d., 

 may be referred to. Lists of plants may be found in Davis and Lees' 'West 

 Yorkshire,' 1878, pp. 316-318 ; and Lists of Wetherby Mosses, by J. S. Wesley and 



