GEOLOGY. — This section will be officially represented by 

 Sheppard, F.G.S., one of its Secretaries. 



CiRC. 165. 

 Mr. Thos. 



Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F G.S., writes: — Here is a veritable epitome of 

 all the Secondary Rocks. It seems almost incredible in so small an area, but the 

 fact is so. Take them in descending order: — 



North Grimston Wold, 

 Birdsall Wold, 

 Bird sail Brow: 



Grimston Hill, 

 Langton Wold : 



Kennythorpe ; 



Burylhorpe, 

 Westow, 

 Firby : 



Howsham : 



Acklam, 

 Leavening : 



Middle Chalk with Flints. 

 Lower Chalk and Red Chalk. 

 Kimmeridge Clay. 



Supra-coralline Beds. 

 Coral Rag. 

 Coralline Oolite. 

 Passage Beds. 

 Lower Calcareous Grit. 

 Oxford Clay. 



Kellaways Rock and Sands. 



Estuarine Beds of Lower Oolites, 

 with exposures of Scarborough 

 and iNIillepore Limestones. 



Upper and Lower Lias. 



Keuper Beds of New Red 

 Sandstone with Gypsum. 



What more can a geologist want in a live mile walk? and where else will he 

 get it as fully? The district is wonderfully faulted, so much so that my friend, 

 Mr. Fox Strangways, who -surveyed it, told me that he had to leave it for a 

 time, to cool his head, before mapping it. The walk from Hurdale Station to 

 Aldro will give a vivid idea of the marvels of the Wold dales, dry chalk valleys with 

 sloping grassy sides towering 200 feet, in some cases, above their narrow level 

 bnttoms. At Burdale .Station and above Thixendale the main valley has been cut 

 completely through the chalk, and water stands in the clayey bottom in places. 



BOTANY.— This section will be officially represented by Mr. T. W. Wood- 

 head, F.L..S., President, and Mr. H. II. Corbett, one of its .Secretaries. 



Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., writes: — The north slope of the Wolds is naturally 

 a backward district, and in the present late season many of the plants may not be 

 found in flower, but in every branch of botany there is sure to be plenty of interest 

 found. The following are worthy of mention as growing on the chalk and limestone 

 i:i the district: — Helld/iorns fictidics, Papaver duhiuin. Reseda liitea, R. luteola, &c. , 

 Helianlltcmiini vitlgare, Linuni catharticiDii, Ononis aivcusis, Anthyllis vnliieraria, 

 Spina fillipendula, Poteriiiin saiiguisorba, Coniiiin iiiaciilaltiiii, Piinpinella magna, 

 Antlirisciis sylvestris, Daiicus earota, Skn-ard'a arvensis, Centanrea scaliiosa. Car- 

 dans en'ophonis, C. hnueolatns, C. paluslris, Antennaria dioica, Tragopogon 

 pralcnsis. Orchis niasciila, 0. inaculata, 0. viorio, 0. pyrainidalis, Ophrys apifera. 



Grasses. — Anthoxanllimn odoratufu, Avena pule; ens, Fesluca o:<ina, Bionnis 

 erectiis. 



Mosses. — Encalyp'a vulgaris, E. streptocarpa, Ortliotricliuin piik/ieiluw, O. 

 affine, Leucodon sciiiroides, Thuidiiiin recognitwn, etc. 



