l^otfesbive flaturalists' Xllnton. 



IpresiDent : 



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



Iboiu Secretaries: 



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

 EDWIN HAWKESWORTH, Goodman Street, Hunslet, Leeds. 



THE 160th meeting 



WU.L BE HELD AT 



MASH AM, 



FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



Colsterdale, Birk Gill, Apnag-ill, and the District adjacent 

 to the confluence of the Burn with the Yore, 



SATURDAY & MONDAY, Aug. 3rd & 5th, 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 

 TANFIELD or MASHAM 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 August 2nd, 3rd or 

 5th, will be available for return any day up to Tuesday, Aug. 6th. 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. The N.E. Ry. Co. issue week-end tickets at single fare, from certain 

 stations, to Masham. 



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 three days before the date of the Excursion, and MUST 

 ENCLOSE a stamped directed envelope and their current card of member- 

 ship 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 has been kindly granted by Lord Masham to visit Swinton 

 Park and his estate; also by Mr. Thos. Arton, for the Tanfield Lodge estate. 

 Members must take great care not to disturb the game, and, in accordance with the 

 policy of the Union, they must not take the roots of ferns or rare plants. Being so 

 near the I2lh of August, the permission does not extend to the moors, and members 

 are requested to confine their attention to the low grounds. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The whole of the district for investigation is 

 included in .Sheet 97 S.E. of the One-inch Ordnance Map, which may l)e obtained 

 geologically coloured. There is very little published information to be had, and 

 all that Baker says in his ' North Yorkshire ' is (|uoted in full in this circular. There 

 is a [;aper on 'Marlield Pond, Masham, and its Bird-Life,' by Thos. Carter, in the 

 'Naturalist,' Aug., 1886, pp. 231-234, in which several plants also are mentioned. 

 These, however, will not now be found, as the pond no longer exists. There are 

 numerous notes on vertebrate animals, by Mr. James Carter and his sons, scattered 



