106 Hawell: Vorkshtre Naturalists Union at Statthes. 
was a pleasant sight to see the procession of fisher-wives bringing 
home their water of an evening, with their ‘skeels’ gracefully 
poised upon their heads, but we are given to understand 
that the District Council has lately disestablished these 
picturesque processions by bringing the people pipe-water to 
their dwellings. 
On Saturday, August 1st, some members of the Naturalists’ 
Union found their way to Staithes, where they made the Station 
Hotel their head-quarters, and under the efficient guidance of 
Mr. Richard Barnes and Mr. Kenneth McLean, explored the 
locality. On the Monday a large accession of members arrived, 
and these separated into two or three parties, according to the 
special branches of natural history in which they were interested. 
The geological party was greatly strengthened by a number of 
members of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, 
which had been making Whitby the head-quarters of an excur- 
sion commencing on the previous Friday, and had, on the Friday 
and Saturday, investigated the coast-sections between Stainton 
Dale and Whitby. This party, numbering 23 at the outset, left 
Easington Station, on the arrival of the train from Whitby, 
shortly after nine o’clock, and, under the leadership of Prof. 
P. F. Kendall, Mr. W. Y. Veitch, and Rev. J. Hawell, proceeded 
by the shortest route to the old alum works on the Boulby Cliff, 
on the way to which they passed over the mounds at Gallihowe, 
supposed to be Celtic tumuli, and near them over the highest 
point of the Yorkshire coast. The alum works, where they 
found one or two geologists already at work, are specially inter- 
esting as showing the large extent of the alum industry in days 
gone by, and as being the place from which many good saurian 
remains were obtained. Here is a good section of the Upper 
Lias, and an instructive exposure of the junction between the 
Lias and the Oolite, and the plentiful nodules of the alum shale 
are here most fossiliferous. Returning to Easington Station at 
1.21 p.m., the geologists took the train to Hinderwell, from 
which facet in augmented numbers, they proceeded to Runswick 
Bay, and walked thence along the shore to Staithes, inspecting 
the capital Liassic sections exposed on the way, and obtaining a 
good series of fossils, including very good specimens of 
Stephanoceras annulatum, and from the same zone, Belemnites 
cylindricus, with its large and well-preserved phragmocone. 
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o'clock, and explored the Easington and Roxby Woods with 
Naturalist, 
. of members interested in botany, entomology and. 
general natural history left Easington Station at about eleven — 
