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CiRC. No. 96. 



i^ermission for the investigation of their estates has ])cen kindly granted by 

 Messrs. John Foster, James Farrer, J. Hammond, Aid. T. Benson l\ Ford, John 

 Slinger, and the Rev. Arthur Ingilljy. 



All memlicrs will return to Settle by the 5.10 p.m. train from Ilorton. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The whole of the district for the day's investiga- 

 tion is com])rised within Sheet S^ (97 -S.W.) one-inch ordnance map (which may 

 be liad geologically coloured). The Ceology is described ])y Dakyns, Tiddenian, 

 in the Survey Memoir, etc., and in Tiddcman's ]\aper, Q.J.G.S., 1S72, p. 471 

 (the Ice-sheet in N. Lanes, and adjacent parts). Dr. Marshall Watts' School 

 ]'""lora gives notes on some of the plants, and Mr. E. I"*eake's privately printed 

 Giggleswick Bird Calendar on the birds. Reference may also be made to 

 Windsor's Flora Cravoniensis, Banks' Walks in Yorkshire (riull Pot and Hunt 

 Pot, )>. 76), Dobson's Rambles by Ribble (Douk Ghyll Scar, p. 57), Mutton's Tour 

 to the Caves, 1781, p. 43, Miall's Geol. and Nat. Hist, of Craven, G. H. Brown's 

 On Foot Round Settle, Davis and Lees' West Yorksliire, as well as to Phillips' 

 classical Works. 



Exi'J,ANATiox 01' Mai'.— The following ft>rmalions are sJiown : 8 I^ermian ; 

 7 Coal ^Teasures; 6 Millstone (irit; 5 Voredale Beds, &c. (with I'endleside Lime- 

 •stone), 4 Carboniferous Limestone ; 3 Basement Carboniferous, and Upper Old 

 Red ; 2 Silurian, I Ordovician. 



^ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY.— Mr. J. G. Goodchild, 



F.G.S., writes: The early contingent will leave Horton about'8'30 a.m., with 

 the object of making a cursory examination of the leading features of geological 

 interest on the west side of the Horton valley. Should time permit, this part of 

 the excursion may end)race a visit to Combs Quarry, where the jnountain limestone 

 is seen lying on the upturned ends of the Coiiiston I'lags. 



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