300 ' YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION ON THE WOLDS. 
Permission for the investigation of their respective estates had 
been kindly granted by Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart., and Mr. Y. Lloyd 
Greame. Altogether, between sixty and seventy members and 
associates attended, including a goodly array of lepidopterists, who 
ad been attracted by the note in the programme that the Marbled 
White Butterfly occurred in the district. 
t is natural that the success attending excursions of this kind 
should be of a somewhat varied nature. Consisting, as it does, 
of so many sections, it is seldom that the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union holds a meeting without doing some good work. It may be 
that of adding to the county list some new species, or perhaps 
recording a species new to the particular district in which the excur- 
sion takes place. Sometimes it may be a mammal, sometimes an 
insect or a mollusc, not infrequently a plant or, as on the present 
occasion; meeting with a form which has been lost sight of in the 
county for many years. Undoubtedly the ‘find’ of the day was the 
Marbled White Butterfly (Avge ga/atea), which has been regarded as 
extinct in Yorkshire for more than twenty years. 
Several members had been on the ground early, and had spent 
some time in investigating the woods in the vicinity of Bessingdale 
d. The main body arrived on the scene about half-past eleven, and 
were met by the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., the Vicar of Wetwang, 
an old and prominent member of the Union, under whose charge the 
excursion was practically conducted. Leaving Fimber Station, the 
party proceeded some distance up York Dale and then divided, 
some continuing with their leader, and others, bent on individual 
research, roaming through the beautiful woods and grassy valleys, 
or settling down te quiet work in the chalk-pits, which are numerous 
in the district. It would be impossible (and unnecessary) to chronicle 
the routes taken by each party, but Mr. Cole and his followers 
investigated York Dale, entered Badger Wood, and thence worked 
their way to Wetwang. 
The time fixed for tea was four o’clock, and about this hour the 
party began to reunite at the Black Swan Inn, Wetwang. A five 
hours’ ramble in the open air is well calcuiated to induce a good 
appetite, even in the most dyspeptic individual, and no doubt 
everyone did justice to the fare provided. 
After this part of the programme had been rehearsed, the members 
adjourned to the Schoolroom, which had been kindly placed at the 
disposal of the Union by the Vicar. 
The sectional. meetings were, as usual, held first, and at 5-15 
were followed by the general meeting, under the chairmanship of the 
Rey. W. Fowler, M.A. A whisper having gone round ~ meee 
“Naturalist, 
