THE DISTRICT. — From the crest of the great bank of massive boulder- 

 clay that dominates the stubborn reef of Filey Brig we may enjoy, if 

 the day be clear, one of the most charming and comprehensive views of 

 the Yorkshire coast. To the southward, across the broad, sandy bay 

 that marks the outcrop of the Kimeridge Clay, tower the white precipices of 

 Speeton and Buckton, seemingly close at hand but in truth fully five miles 

 distant, where the chalk escarpment has been assailed by the sea and carved 

 into impregnable walls that stretch away in grand perspective to the cave-worn 

 headland at Flambro'. We shall notice how at Speeton the chalk escarpment 

 swings inland in a line of steep bluffs past Reighton and Hunmanby, approach- 

 ing always nearer to us until it reaches Flotmanby, and then bending away 

 sharply to the westward along the southern margin of the Vale of Pickering ; 

 and how its crest between Buckton and Reighton iS piled with hummocks of 

 drift that mark the terminal moraine of the great ice-field which once filled the 

 sea-basin before us. Similar hummocky ground, at a lower level, stretches 

 from the foot of the escarpment at Muston to our feet, forming a huge dam 

 across the original sea-ward opening of the Vale of Pickering, which has thrown 

 the drainage inland, by a circuitous route, to the Plumber. 



Turning northward we find the prospect not less impressive as we look 

 athwart the succession of bold crags and shallow recesses, that mark the sea- 

 ward edge of the Oolitic rocks, with the caslle-crowned prominence of Scarbro' 

 in the middle distance, and the great rounded shoulder of Peak looming up far 

 beyond and closing in the view. And following the continuation of these 

 rocks inlan^, to the north-westward our vision ranges across the tabular hills 

 of the Eastern Moorlands, wherein lie hidden those strange deep gorges that 

 liave only recently yielded up their full history ; aud thus we are brought once 

 more to the broad Vale of Pickering receding from below us into the dim west. 



MONDAY'S ROUTES. — All parties start from Filey Station, on the 

 arrival of the 10-43 ^-^i^- train from Leeds, York, and Scarborough, and the 9-55 

 from Hull. 



I. — Those interested in Marine Zoology will proceed at once to the Brig, 

 under the leadership of Mr. T. Petch, B.Sc. 



II. — The Geologists will be under the leadership of Mr. C. Fox-Strangways, 

 F.G.S., of H.M. Geological Survey, under whose guidance the cliffs between 

 Filey and Cayton Bay will be examined, the return journey being accomplished 

 by waggonette, at a charge of is. per head. The conveyance will await the 

 party at Cayton Bay at 3-15 o'clock. 



III. — The Botanists and general body of Naturalists will examine the cliffs 

 and shore south of Filey, under the leadership of Mr. E. R. Cross and other 

 members of the Scarborough Society. 



GEOLOGY. — The Geological Section will be officially represented by its 

 President, Mr. E. Hawkesworth ; and Secretaries, Mr. J. H. Lofthouse and 

 Rev. J. Hawell, M.A., F.G.S. The Boulder Committee will be represented 

 by its Chairman, Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., and Secretary', Mr. T- H. 

 Howarth, F.G.S. 



The Yorkshire Fossil Flora Committee will be represented by its Secretarv, 

 Mr. W. M. Rankin, B.Sc. 



The Yorkshire Coast Erosion Committee will be represented by its Chair- 

 man, Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S , and Secretarv Mr. F. F. Walton, 

 F.G.S. 



The Yorkshire Geological Photographs Committee, will be represented by 

 its Secretary, Mr. J. E. Bedford, l^G.S. 



Mr. C. F'ox-Strangways writes : — Filey Brig and the neighbouring cliffs afford 

 magnificent sections of the middle portion of the Jurassic Rocks, and of the 

 Boulder-clay and other glacial beds by which these are so deeply covered. The 

 Brig is the eastern extremity of this extensive outcrop, and is especially interesting 

 to the geologist from the rocks being easily accessible, and from the fact that 



