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ROUTES.— 



I. — Ccologists shoLiki leave Chatburn at 11-35 ''^•"'- '^^^^^ proceed to Gishurn. 

 Leader Mr. K. H. Tiddeman, M.A., K.G.S. 



II.— Leave ChatlmiTi Station ai ir-35 a.m. to investigate (he immediate 

 vicinity of Sawley Abl^ey, returning to Chatburn in time for the 5-3 p.m. train. 



ni. — Members desirous of investigating Gisljurn Parl< nnd the adjacent woods, 

 should alight at (jisburn Station at 11-23 a.m., returning llierefrom at 5-16 p.m. 



i'ermissicm to visit their estates is kindly granted by Lord Ribldesdale, the 

 Dowager Countess Cowper, and Mr. C. B. K. Wright. 



BOOKS and MAPS.— The whole of the district for investigation is included 

 in sheet 92 S.W. one-inch ordnance maj), also published geologically coloured. 

 The new edition of the Geological Survey Maps, 92 N. W. and 92 S.W., may now Ije 

 had through the agent, E. Stanford, Charing Cross, London. Whitaker's 'History 

 of Craven' should be referred to, especially for an account (with figures) of the 

 herd of Wild White Cattle which formerly existed at Gisburn. The 'Naturalist' 

 for 1881, and Davis and Lees' 'West Yorkshire' should also be consulted. 



GEOLOGY.— The section will be ofhcially represented by its president, Mr. 

 R. 11. Tiddeman, M.A., h'.G.S., and one of its secretaries, Mr. W. Lower Carter, 

 M.A., F.G.S. 



Mr. R. II. Tiddeman, of II.M. Geological Survey, writes :— The (;eology 

 is represented in Geol. Survey Map, Sheet 92 S.W., nnd the Memoir on the 

 Burnley Coalfield. The route from CJisburn to Sawley along the Kibble is in a 

 gorge which has been excavated by the river and gives beautiful views of river 

 scenery. The geology is not of tirst-rate interest as the river runs nearly 

 along the strike u}xjn beds above and below the upi)er l)oundary of the Clitheroe 

 Limestone (Carboniferous). The Limestone is on tlie chief anticline of North 

 Lancashire and strikes in a N.E. direction from near Clioriey to Bolton Abbey. 

 Some of the lowest beds, probably, of this anticline are cut through l)y the railway 

 l)etween (iisburn and Rimingtoji to tlie east of the I\il)ble. Itere they consist more 

 of shales than limestones. The main mass of the limestone is cut off by a N.N.E. 

 fault whicli ranges by Wybersey Hill, Rollon Hall, and the Archery Ground where 

 it crosses the Rilible. Some interesting examples of flexure and one of overthrust 

 of the beds were to be seen in a (piarry east of Sawley Abbey near the (iisburn road. 

 Sawley Abbey is an interesting early exani|>le of jerry-building, its walls being (^f 

 shale in spite of better stone abounding in the neighbouihood. If time should per- 

 mit portions of the other side of the anticline may be seen about Downham or 

 Chatburn where the beds are better exposed. 



BOTANY. --The Botanical Section will be officially represented by Mi\ 

 Chas. Crossland. Mr. C. B. V.. Wright, of bolton JJall, has kmdly consented to 

 show his gardens, etc., which will am[)ly repay a visit. Holton Hall itself is an 

 ancient mansion of welbknown historic interest. 



Although defmite local information appears to be difficult to obtain, yet, from 

 the varying nature of the district — its hills and dales, marshy tracts and old woods 

 —it should be an extremely rich district fur the botanist. There does not appear 

 to be any available information cd" later date tlian that, of Davis and Lees' ' We^t 

 Vorkshire,' published in 1878, wherein we read as follows : — In the Io\\'er and less 

 rocky i)art of the Kibble A'alley fewer bolanical treasures are naturally to be had fir 

 the gathering than in the upper [or Settle] half of its \'orkshire com'se. But about 

 Gisburn and Sawley, where are the remains of an old abbey, under the frowning 

 crest of bendle Hill, in several rocky dells and doughs, grows hiipatiens noH-iuc- 

 lan^ere, native in all seeming ; for it is not coniineti to one or two stations in the 

 vicinity of dwellings, and occurs also over a wdde area in tlie adjacent part of 

 Lancashire, about Jluntroyd and Sabden. If it be, indeed, an introduced species, 

 it is diflicull to explain why il should occur so much more freciuently hereabouts 

 than in other }).-irts of ^'orkshire, where it is quite as commonly grown in cottage 



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