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7=15 p.m.— Hbe General /[Meeting 



of members and associates will be held. The chair will be taken 

 by the President of the Union, who will be supported by pro- 

 minent members of the Union. After the reading of the Annual 

 ' Report and the announcement of the Excursion Programme for 

 1902, 



^be fftcesiOential BCi&ress 



will be delivered by Rev. W. Fowler, M.A. 



During the delivery of the Address the chair will be occu- 

 pied by the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Wakefield. 



After the business of the Meeting is concluded, light Refresh- 

 ments will be provided by the Mayor. 



tjotel accommoDation 



Members wishing to spend the night in Wakefield wall find 

 good accommodation at the Royal Hotel. 



CarDs of /[ftembersbip. 



The production of these is absolutely necessary for the obtaining of N. E. 

 railway tickets at reduced fares, and for admission to the various meetings. 



Members who have lost or mislaid their cards may have another on 

 application to the Secretaries, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. 



Associates may obtain theirs through the Secretary of their own local 

 Society. 



^bc Dietrict— 



Mr. H. G. Townsend writes : — To geologists the district around 

 Wakefield presents very few sections of interest. A fairly good 

 section, shewing the outcrop of what are known locally as the 

 Sharlston Coals, is exposed in the Midland Railway cutting at 

 Goosehill Bridge, about half-a-mile south of Normanton Station. 

 The rocks in the district belong to the Middle Coal Measures, 

 and include several valuable seams of coal, known as the Scale, 

 Stanley Main, Haigh Moor, Silkstone or Middleton Main, and 

 Beeston Beds. The Clay Hole belonging to Messrs. Flowers 

 Bros., at Eastmoor, is about seventy feet deep, and some very 

 fine specimens of fossil plants have been found in the grey bind, 

 which is worked for the manufacture of bricks. The following 

 were named by Mr. W. Hemingway, of Barnsley: — Neuropteris 

 scheuchzeri, Mariopteris inuricata, Sp/ieiwp/iyilion saxiffngcefolmvi, 

 Cycas revohita, and Alithopteris lotichitia. 



Mr. G. Parkin writes that Walton Park was once the home of 

 the celebrated naturalist, Charles Waterton. The hall, or castle, 

 as it used to be termed, is surrounded by a lake which is visited 

 by numerous water-fowl, and the well-wooded surroundings 

 aljound with bird life. The fine old heronry is, unfortunately, 

 gone, and some historical trees gone to decay, but much yet re- 

 mains of interest. Situated as it is, so near to such favourite 

 nesting-places as the fine reservoirs at Wintersett and Cold- 

 hiendley, Newmillerdam, WooUey Dam, and the beautiful lake 

 at Nostel Priory, records have been made of many rarities, such 



