BOOKS AND MAPS. — The whole area is inchided in Sheets 31 and 32 of 

 the One- Inch Ordnance Map, which may be obtained geologically coloured. 



Reference should be made to Baker's "North Yorkshire" (Y. N. U. Trans, 

 part 12) ; Phillips' "Rivers, Mountains, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire" ; J. Back- 

 house's " Teesdale Botany" (Naturalist, 1884, p. 10), and " Avi-Fauna of Upper 

 Teesdale " (Naturalist, 1885, p. 353, and 1888, p. 79) : A. R. Dwerryheuse's 

 "The Glaciation of Teesdale," etc., Q. J. G. S., 1902, pp. 572-608. 



THE DISTRICT to be investigated consists generally of the valley of the 

 liver Greta. This stream, a tributary of the Tees, rises on Stainmoor, and fiows 

 over the mountain limestone. A little above Bowes it enters on the main limestone, 

 on which it continues its course for some miles, then cuts through the underset 

 limestone and flagstone, and finally flows over them to the river Tees, which it 

 joins, after running in a curved course for eight or nine miles below Bowes. In 

 its upper part the valley is not deeply cut, but flows in a wide hollow through a 

 wild and bleak moorland district. As it approaches the Tees it becomes very 

 picturesque, and has been made famous by Sir Walter Scott in his romance of 

 "Rokeby." The old Roman road, "the Street," which branches from the great 

 North Road at Scotch corner, runs through Bowes, which was the site of the 

 Roman station Lavatra;. Here many evidences of the Roman occupation have 

 been dug up from time to time. 



The immediate vicinity of Bowes does not appear to have received its share of 

 attention from Yorkshire workers. For information relating to the surrounding 

 district see programmes Nos. 97 and 13 1, dealing with Rokeby and Cotherstone 

 respectively. 



SATURDAY'S ROUTES.— 



Bowes to Lartington Station by train at 9-3 a.m. ; up Deepdale and back to 

 Bowes. 



Alternative Route : — Up Sleightholme Beck ; cross the moor ; and back to Bowes 

 by the Greta. 



SATURDAY EVENING PROGRAMME.— On Saturday evening, at 8 p.m. 

 Air. T- J- Burton will read: — "Notes on the Geology and Archaeology of the 

 Districi," and other papers will be given. 



MONDAY'S ROUTES. — Bowes to Kilmond's Scar, Rutherford Bridge, and 

 Brignall banks or Rokeby, as time and weather permits. 



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. J. J. Burton writes : — The solid geology of the district, although very 

 interesting, is that of the Mountain Limestone area of the N.W. of Yorkshire 

 generally, and does not possess any very distinctive features calling for special 

 mention. In the near neighbourhood of Bowes there are many bold exposures of 

 the main limestone, some of the beds of which are very fossiliferous. A fine face 

 of encrinital limestone is well shewn in the quarries near Kilmond Scar, and passing 

 along the edge of the Scar down towards the Greta, the underset limestone, much 

 weathered, is well seen, along with intermingled beds of sandstone and shale, with 

 coal sills in places. North and west of Bowes the rocks are much faulted and full 

 of mineral veins, and the whole country is intersected with basaltic dykes and sills 

 • and lava flows. Eastwards the disturbances are of a less ]3ronounced character. 

 The several routes planned are all in the direct line of the ice flow from the west, 

 and boulders of all sizes and in great numbers are scattered all over the area. 



BOTANY. — The Botanical Section will be officially represented by its 

 President, Mr. J. Farrah, F.L.S. ; and Secretaries, Dr. H. H. Corbett, and 

 Mr. W. Ingham, B.A. 



Flowering Plants. — Mr. Burton writes : — Along with a great variety of 

 plants usually found in high latitudes, the following are more or less common in 

 ihe Greta Valley : — 



