l^orhshite IRatuvalists' ITlnion. 



president : 



W. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., Leeds. 



•toon. Secretary : 



,T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., Municipal Museum, Hull. 



Divisional Secretary: 



J. W. STATHER, F.G.S., i6 Louis Street, Hull. 



THE 172ND MEETING 



WILL BE HELD AT 



Filey, 



FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



The Brig and the adjacent Cliffs, 



On SATURDAY, MAY 30th, and WHIT MONDAY, 

 1st JUNE, 1903. 



RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.— Through return tickets at pleasure 

 party rates will be issued at all stations on the G.C., G.N., H. & B., L. &V., 

 L. & N.W., Midland, and N.E. Railways which have booking arrangements for 

 Filey, to Members and Associates of the V.N.U. surrendering the Certificate 

 noted below. Tickets taken on Friday or Saturda\-, 29th or 30th May, will be available 

 for return any day up to Tuesday, June 2nd. Where through bookings are not in 

 operation MemVjers may book to most convenient junction, and re-book to destina- 

 tion ; the reduced fares being available for eacli stage of the journey. 



N.B.— The Railway Booking eierks will only grant these reduced 

 fares to Members and dissociates producing a Special Certificate 

 signed by the Secretary of the Union. Members and Associates 

 wishing for this Certificate must apply to Mr. Sheppard for it. 

 and must enclose a stamped directed envelope and their current 

 card of membership of the Union, which latter will be returned 

 with the Certificate. Kt stations on the N. E. Rly. tickets at the 

 reduced fares will be issued on production of the signed card of 

 membership. 



"WEEK-END HEAD-QUARTERS.— No difficulty will be experienced as 

 regards hotels, etc. ; tliose requiring information should apply to the divisional 

 secretary. 



On Saturday morning il is proposed to examine the Cliffs to the soulii of 

 I'iley, as far as Speelon. The party will leave Speeton station for the cliffs on 

 the arrival of tlie 11- 1 a.m. train from Filey. The Members will meet at Foord's 

 Hotel, (^ueen Street, Filey, at 8 p.m., when short Papers will be read, including 

 " Notes on the Marine Zoology of tlie l'"iley Brig;" " Notes on the Geology of 

 I'iley Bay," by Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. ; "The Roman Remains found near 

 I'iley," by Rev. E. M. Cole; to be followed by discussions. 



LOW TIDES at i o'clock on Saturday, and 2-30 o'clock on Monday. 



BOOKS AND MAPS. — Tlie whole area is included in Sheets 95 S.VV. and 

 S.K. of tlie One-Inch Ordnance Map, which may be obtained geologicalh 

 C(jloured. " 'l"he Yorkshire Coast," by Jno. Phillips. " The N'orkshire Oolites," 

 liy W. 11. Iludieston. The following memoirs of the Geological Survey: — -"Tlie 

 Jurassic Rocks ol \'orkshire," and "The (ieology of the Rocks south of Scar- 

 liorougli," by C. l''ox-Strangwa}s. Reports of previous excursions of the Union to 

 the distiicl in tlie " Naturalist." 



