2098 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT WITHERNSEA. 
For the Botanical Section, in the absence of all its officers, 
A. Clarke, of Huddersfield, reported that considering the 
limited time at their disposal, the botanists were fairly successful 
in obtaining specimens of many of the plants recorded for the 
district. Notwithstanding that only a limited area was — 
the following were exhibited at the meeting of the section :—Ho/tton 
palustris, teen media var. neglecta, Silaus pratensis, Cmte 
nigra (rayed form), Lemna gibba, Ononis spinosa, Linum catharticum, 
Convolvulus soldanella, and Psamma arenaria ; in addition to which 
were also found :—AZyosotis palustris var. si ‘eulosa, Sparganium 
ramosum, Sagina apetala, Filago germanica, Trifolium Sragiferum, 
Agropyron acutum, and a number of other more commonly occurring 
coast plants. The specimens brought as Carex punctata turn out 
upon further examination to be C. distans. Hordeum maritimum 
was found very plentifully distributed on the cliffs. None of the 
members reported any noteworthy finds of cryptogamic plants, 
though doubtless if more time had been available they would have 
found it a productive district. 
Mr. Alfred Harker, M.A., F.G.S., who reported in the absence of 
all the officers of the Geological Section, writes that the geological 
contingent found in the cliffs south of Withernsea ample oppor 
tunities for seeing something of the Glacial and Post-glacial history 
the Holderness district, although time did not permit of a 
sufficiently detailed study of all the points of interest, and it would 
be difficult in a day’s excursion to add anything material to what 1S 
known of this much-explored tract. The bulk of the party made 
their way by road to Out Newton, and, descending to the beach, 
examined the base of the cliffs at Dimlington High Land. This 
is one of the few places where the lowest or Basement Boulder 
clay is exposed. The peculiarities of this clay, and especially the 
evidences of the grinding action of the ice as seen in the crushing 
and rolling out of boulders, were here studied. The general character 
rocks as the augite-syenite and ‘Rhombenporphyr’ of the Christiania 
district, with gneisses, garnetiferous mica-schists, and granites, 
indicated the foreign origin of part of the material. Shell-fragments 
were found occurring frequently in this Basement-clay, and Mr. Stather, 
who had come down at an earlier hour, found ged specimens of 
several shells, such as Astarte borealis, A. compressa A. sulcata, 
fragments of Cyprina islandica, Tellina baltica (?), Yad and 
Balanus. Waterworn Coit echinatum (?), Saxicava fae 
aturalist, 
