YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT PENISTONE. 255 
In order to work the area as fully as possible three routes had 
been arranged. A fair number o ault finders,’ otherwise known 
as geologists, were under the leadership of Mr. Joseph Field, of 
Huddersfield, and sina work at Dunford Bridge on the 
arrival of the 11.30 a.m. trai 
The general body of cei under the guidance of Messrs. 
Alfred Clarke, J. N. Dransfield, S. L. Mosley, F.E.S., and R. Nash, 
also started from Dunford Bridge at 11.30, and first proceeded to 
Dunford Bridge Reservoir, after which they split up and traversed 
aed moors and valleys in all directions. 
e third party, consisting only of two conchologists, including 
the leader (Mr. L. E. ams, B.A.), proceeded from Penistone 
to examine the mollusca of Scout Dam and Gunthwaite. 
During the greater part of the day rain fell persistently, and 
soaked the heather and grass to such an extent as to make the 
condition of things decidedly unpleasant. Still having no control 
over the rain-fall, one could only say with Goethe— 
Es regnet aber furchterlich: 
Es regnet seinen lauf, 
Und wenn es g’nug _— hat 
So hort es wieder a 
but as it did zof¢ ‘aufhdren’ it was with no feeling of regret when five 
o'clock came round that members prepared to leave the field. So 
soaked were some of the party that with a vague uneasiness of possible 
rheumatism or something of the sort in the future, more than one 
made straight for home and were seen no more ; however, those who 
did remain were somewhat comforted by the sight of tea prepared at 
the Wentworth Arms Hotel. After having been attended to in very 
commendable style, the cares of the day were somewhat if not wholly 
forgotten, and the meetings held also at the Wentworth Arms went 
cheerily on. The Sectional Meetings were followed at 7 o'clock 
by the general satire at which Mr. Thomas Bunker, of Goole, 
preside 
The following were elected members of the Union :-— 
W. H. Brittain, J.P., Ranmoor, Sheffield. 
E. W. Thirkell, epee near Barnsley. 
T. Stacey Wilson, M.D., M.R.C.P., B.Sc., Edgbaston 
Birmingham (Hon. an Midland Union of ‘Natu ral 
History Societies). 
In order to be able to add the various publications of the Union 
to their library, the Corporation of Sheffield applied for membership 
and were unanimously admitted. It is to be hoped that other 
municipal bodies will follow such a laudable example 
August 1892 
