BOOKS AND MAPS. — The whole area is mduded in Sheets 96 N.E. and 

 95 N.W. of the One-Inch Ordnance Map, which may be obtained geologically 

 coloured. For the Glacial Geology reference should be made to Mr. P. F. Kendall's 

 paper on "A System of Glacier-lakes in the Cleveland Hills," Quarterly Journal 

 Geological Society, No. 231 (Aug. 1902) ; for the Solid Geology to Mr. Fox- 

 Strangway's "Jurassic Rocks of Britain," Vol I. "Yorkshire" (1892), (Geological 

 Survey Memoir), and the Survey Memoirs illustrating the two maps above- 

 mentioned; for the general Natural History to Baker's "North Yorkshire." 



THE DISTRICT to be investigated is mainly included in the valley of the 

 Murk Esk, with its tributaries Ellerbeck and Wheeldale Beck. ' A more 

 diversified tract, in so limited an area, could hardl}' be found anywhere. High 

 moors and deep glens, stagnant bogs and rushing waterfalls give charm to its 

 modern aspect. But over and above this Mr. Kendall's recent investigations have 

 invested it with an air of romance — the romance of truth infinitely more delightful 

 and inspiring than that of fiction, — and to the seekers of truth who assemble at 

 Goathland will be shown where once stood Lake Wheeldale and Lake Ellerbeck, 

 merging their united waters later into Lake Goathland, also the channels by which 

 they received their supplies from Lake Eskdale, and the master-channel by which 

 they emptied themselves into Lake Pickering. 



ROUTES.- — The Members arriving from the north at 9-50 will proceed to the 

 waterfall named Thomasin Foss, returning to the station to meet the train from the 

 south due at 10-35. The entire party will then proceed to the neighbourhood of 

 Goathland Church. From there the Geologists, under the guidance of Mr. P. F. 

 Kendall, E.G. S., will proceed by way of Mallion Spout to Murk IMire ]Moor, 

 returning from Grosmont station to Goathland at 3-35. The general body of 

 Naturalists, led by Messrs. J. T. Sewell and W. Ingham, B.A., will proceed by the 

 Goathland peat bogs to Fen Bogs (2-Jj miles), returning by the old railway. If 

 time permits an ascent of the moor to the north will be made, and the Newtondale 

 gorge inspected from above, the return being made by Ellerbeck to the summit 

 cabin. Members arriving by the train due at 11-44 should proceed at once to 

 the Bogs. 



PERMISSION to visit their properties has been kindly granted by the 

 authorities of the Duchy of Lancaster, by the Messrs. Foster, and by the N.E. 

 Railway Co. 



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 by its Chairman, 

 Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S. 



The Rev. J. Hawell writes : — In view of Mr. Kendall's recent valuable and 

 interesting work on the Cleveland Moorland area, in connection with which work 

 the Goathland neighbourhood presents features second to none in their evidential 

 witness to the truth of his important conclusions, the claim of the solid geology of 

 the district to attention will not on this occasion strongl}' assert itself. We may 

 merely observe that the major scenic features are carved out of the upper and 

 lower Estuarine Sandstones of the lower Oolites with the intervening moor grit 

 and grey limestone. The "Ellerbeck Bed," a thin but persistent bed of iron- 

 stone in the lower Estuarines should be noted in Wheeldale. 



As to the glacial geology, members arriving from the south should carefully 

 observe the characters of the enormous gorge of Newtondale, noting the accumula- 

 tion of peat at Fen Bogs on the watershed. This gorge was carved out by the 

 overflow of water in glacial time from North Cleveland. On arrival of the trains, 

 inspection will first be made of a gravel patch near Goathland Church, which 

 perhaps rej^resents an old lake-beach. Then the party will proceed by way of 

 Mallion Spout to Nelly Hay Foss, observing on the way the gorge cut by West 

 Beck, to the south of its original channel, now filled with drift. The route will 

 then lie by Hazel Head and Purse Moor Slack to Randay IMere. Along the 



