178 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE. 
investigation, was to leave Horton on the arrival of the early train, 
and to make a cursory examination of the leading features on the 
west side of Horton Valley. If time permitted, Coombs Quarry 
was to be visited, after which a move was to be made towards the 
north, over the scars of Moughton, in order to meet the noon arrivals 
at Ribblehead. The united party were then to pay special attention 
to the glacial phenomena of the neighbourhood, and return to Horton 
along the east side of the valley. 
Members accompanying the second party were instructed to 
proceed by train to Ribblehead Station, and thence work across the 
moors to Gearstones, so as to strike the head of Ling Gill, which 
was to be descended, whence the moors were to be traversed to 
Horton. 
A third route had been arranged for the benefit of those members 
desirous of investigating Penyghent, or the immediate neighbour- 
ood. 
[The proceedings of the several parties are described at length in 
the reports of the Sectional officers, printed further on. ] 
The early parties set out under very disadvantageous meteoro- 
logical conditions, the morning opening gloomy and wet, but, as if 
influenced by the determination of the band of ‘ early enthusiasts,’ 
a little after nine o’clock the clouds began to lift and scatter, and the 
sun broke forth with all its power, and aided bya fine breeze, matters 
soon became more pleasant both overhead and underfoot, and so 
continued throughout the remainder of the day. 
About five o’clock, the whole body of members (seventy in 
nnmber) attending the excursion, assembled on the railway platform 
at Horton, and shortly after were on their way to Settle. A much 
appreciated tea was served at the Ashfield Hotel, which had been 
made the head-quarters of the excursion. The usual Sectional 
Meetings were followed, at 6.45 p.m., by the General Meeting, under 
the chairmanship of the President, Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. The 
first business included the election of three new members—Messts- 
Reuben Gaunt, Jr., Stanningle y ; Richard Howse, Newcastle-on-Tyne; 
and G. H. Parke, F.L.S., F.G.S., Wakefield ; and the admission of 
a new society into the Union, viz.:—The Leeds Co-operative Field 
Club. 
Representatives were present from the following _ affiliated 
societies :—Barnsley, Wakefield, Liversedge, Leeds Naturalists’ and 
Leeds Geological Associations, Conchological Society, Goole, 
Dewsbury, Malton, Cleveland, Harrogate, Craven, Leyburn, — 
Huddersfield, Bradford Naturalists’, and Bradford Scientific 
Associations, ne 
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