flawell: Yorkshire Naturalists’ Unton at Staithes. 107 
Mr. Kenneth McLean as guide. Crossing some fields they 
proceeded along Logs Lane. On this lane brushwood has been 
suffered to grow to such an extent that there is but a footpath 
remaining through a tangled thicket which affords good cover 
for insect and bird life. Passing Grinkle Park the party crossed 
over the Ridge into the Roxby Glen, and passed on through 
dense thickets, and down the bed of the stream and the adjoin- 
ing lane. Before reaching Staithes they were met by another 
party which had left Staithes somewhat after midday, under 
the leadership of Mr. T. F. Ward an r..W.. om 
Marine zoologists were not in force on the occasion of this 
excursion, but Mr. Arnold Thomas Watson, of Sheffield, devoted 
himself for two or three days to the search for marine organisms a 
in the neighbourhood. Only one low tide, however, was available Se 
each day, and that not low enough to bring many of the rarer 2 
organisms within reach. 
ea having been partaken of at the Station Hotel—and no 
one who has had experience of Mrs. Spink’s cookery will need 
excursion, and asked Mr. Spink where the meeting had best 
be held, he suggested that if the weather were fine he supposed 
the best place would be the Fish Quay. He evidently thought 
that we intended to address the fishermen. As such was not 
the intention, the meeting was, by the kind permission of the 
School Board, held in the Board School, and was numerously 
attended. As time was limited the sectional meetings were 
dispensed with, and Mr. T. H. Nelson, of Redcar, the president 
of the Vertebrate Section, was voted to the chair. — 
The roll of societies having been called ag three new 
members were elected, namely, Mr. W. Ingham, B. ork, 
the Rev. S. Jenkinson, Malton, and the Rev. inh Ellis, Shef 
field. On the motion of the Rev. E. Maule Cole, seconded by 
Mr. Angus Macpherson, a vote of thanks was accorded to the 
landowners, including Sir C. M. Palmer and Mr. Samuel Broune 
(shooting lessee), who had given permission for their properties 
to be visited, and to the leaders of parties and others who had 
facilitated the arrangements for the excursion. With this was 
coupled an expression of sympathy and condolence with the 
family of the late Captain Turton of Upsall Castle, near Thirsk, 
who had died since he so kindly, a few weeks previously, granted 
peuasiot for his sunt estate to be visited ee the Union. 
pril 1898. 
