222 THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT SEDBERGH. 
Richardson, M.A., Rev. J. H. Mackie, M.A. Mr. J. Handley, 
Rev. W. Thompson, M.A., and Mr. W. Robinson, all of Sedbergh, 
and it is entirely due to their united efforts that the meeting was 
such a success. 
By half-past three o’clock the majority of the members had 
returned to the Bull Hotel, and were soon busily engaged in doing 
justice to the meat tea there provided, after which short sectional 
meetings were held, and at 4.15 p.m. the general meeting was held, 
Mr. R. H. Tiddeman, M.A., F.G.S., the President of the Union, 
occupying the chair. 
The balance-sheet having been duly read and passed, the following 
new members were elected :—Messrs. J. Lister Petty, Ulverston ; 
Henry Angus, M.B., C.M., Bingley; John Imbery, Halifax; J. J. 
Baldwin Young, B.A., Sheffield; G..W. Parker, Sheffield ; 
George Kay, Barnsley ; Mrs. R. M. Punshon, Oswaldkirk ; and the 
Bradford Public Free Library. 
The list of the societies was then read, the following being 
represented—Barnsley, Liversedge, Leeds Naturalists’, York an 
District Field Naturalists’, Conchological Society, Leeds Geological, 
Halifax Scientific, Cleveland Naturalists’, Harrogate and District 
Naturalists’, Craven Naturalists’, Hull Scientific, and Leeds Co-opera- 
tive Field Club. The sectional reports were then given. 
Mr. J. H. Howarth, F.G.S., who was acting in the absence of 
the Secretaries of the Geological Section, furnishes the following 
report :— 
Physically and geologically the country immediately around 
Sedbergh belongs to the Lake District, and there, within the borders 
of our own county, may be studied several members of the Silurian 
system which are so extensively developed in certain localitigs of the 
lake country as to derive their distinctive names therefrom. 
Here, too, are to be seen interesting sections of the ‘Old Red 
Conglomerate,’ at one time considered to be Devonian, but now 
regarded as ‘Carboniferous Basement Beds,’ while to the N.E., 
across the Dent or Pennine Fault, is seen the Great Scar Limestone, 
followed by a whole series of Yoredales, with the Millstone Grit on 
the highest ground. Intrusive igneous rocks in sills and dykes in all 
the Silurians afford additional interest to the petrologist, while the 
glacial deposits on which the town of Sedbergh stands, and which 
appear in some of the gills skirting the valley to the N.W., present 
material deserving the careful attention of the glacialist. A district 
affording so extensive a series could not fail to supply abundant 
work for the time at the disposal of the visitors. The geologists 
who had the good fortune to arrive on the Saturday were usefully 
Naturalist, 
