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Several members continued their explorations next day, and were 
again successful. Mr. A. H. Pawson, of Farnley, reports having 
found in Feizor Wood the following rare plants: Conval/aria majalis, 
Daphne Laureola, D. Mezereum, Hippocrepis comosa, Thalictrum minus, 
Rubus saxatilis, and Geranium sanguineum ‘in vast abundance.’ 
A hybrid Primula and Paris quadrifolia were also found in the 
same wood, while Sedum Telephium was again seen, this time at the 
little hamlet of Wharfe. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus was common 
at Wharfe and Austwick, and a great abundance of Saxifraga tridac- 
tylites was noted on the roads near Settle. 
Before calling on the spokesman of the Geological Section, the 
President availed himself of the opportunity of congratulating, on 
behalf of the Union, Prof. L. C. Miall on his having been selected 
as one of this year’s fifteen new Fellows of the Royal Society. 
Mr. Charles Brownridge, F.G.S., who had been acting as Secretary 
of the Section, gave way for Mr. Goodchild, who then gave an 
account of the day’s proceedings. 
Mr. George Brownridge writes:—The excursion being to 
a district noted for its scenic beauty and grandeur, as well as its” 
scientific interest, a strong contingent of West Riding geologists took 
advantage of the facilities offered them to pay a visit to the 
valley of the Ribble, for the investigation of the geology of the district 
around Ribblehead and Horton. The district being an especially 
interesting one for the glacial evidences to be met with, it had been 
arranged to pay most attention to the investigation of this branch of 
work, and among the party taking part in the day’s proceedings were 
Professor Miall, F.G.S. (Chairman), Mr. T. Tate, F.G.S., Mr. P. F. 
Kendall, F.G.S., Mr. W. Horne, F.G.S. (Leyburn), and other 
members of the Yorkshire Boulder Committee. 
The leadership of the party devolved on Mr. J. G. Goodchild, 
F.G.S., of the Geological Survey, whose intimate and thorough 
knowledge of the district was of invaluable service to the party during 
the day. Mr. Goodchild having arrived from Edinburgh on the 
previous day, walked over the ground to arrange suitable times for 
the various parts of the work, and the excursion, reece was 
conducted with commendable regularity and smoothn 
A visit was first made to Beecroft Hall Giaetek © see the 
junction of the Silurian and mountain limestone, and to examine the 
impure coal seams in the base of the latter ; then proceeding over 
Moughton Scars, ample traces were seen on the bare limestone 
plateau of the former presence of Boulder clay, which has been 
denuded off its surface, various fine striz were examined, and after 
a brief examination of the Caves and Pot Holes in the vicinity the 
Jur une 1892, 
