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president : 



IL TIDDEMAN, M.A., F.(;.S., II. M. Geol. Survey, Skipton. 



Ibon. Secretaries: 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., Sunny Bank, Leeds. 

 WALTER F. BAKER, F.E.S., Crossgates, Leeds. 



The HUNDRED-and-EIGHTH MEETING 



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For the investigation of the neighbourhood of 



On WHIT-M ONDAY, May 14th, 1894. 



RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.— Through return tickets at pleasure 

 party rates will be issued at all Yorkshire and Durham stations on the G ^., 

 H. & B., L. & Y., L. & N.\V., M.S. .^ L., Midland, and N.E. Railways which 

 have booking arrangements for Sedbergh, to Members and Associates of the V.A.U. 



producing their signed card of Membership. . i i i • 



Members and Associates starting from stations which have not tlirough booking 



arrangements, should book to the most convenient junction and rebook to Sedbergh ; 



the reduction of fare will be granted for both portions of the journey. ■ 



Members desirous of spending the week-end may book on Friday or Saturday; 



tickets being available for return on the following Monday or Tuesday. 

 ■ HOTEL ACCOMMODATION.— Members will find accommodation at 



the 'Bull' and ' ^Yhite Hart ' Hotels, the Old Vicarage, Carradus Temperance 



Hotel, and others. .. , 



It is hoped that several m'embers will take the opportunity of spenchng Sunday 

 in Sedbergh, as the Rev. J. H. Mackie and Mr. Hugh Richardson nivite the 

 members to meet at the class-rooms, Sedbergh Schools, from 9 lo 10 on Satuulay 

 ■iiight. There will be an exhibition of ordnance maps, microscopes, geological and 

 botanical specimens. Lantern slides illustrating the scenery and geology oi the 

 district will be shown with the limelight, and a short account given of some ot the 

 walks in the neichbourhood. 



Permission to visit their estates is kindly granted by Mrs. F. U. Gotten 

 Dormer, Mr. W. P. Boustead, J. P., and Mr. Septimus Udale. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The district for investigation li<;s chiefly in Sheet 

 39 ( = 9S N.E.) of the one-inch Ordnance Map. The Uldale and Carsdale routes 

 stretch into 40 (-97 N.AV.). Part of the Lune route lies just withm 49 1^9^ ^; ^- )■ 

 These sheets may be luid cither hachured or contoured. They have also been 

 published ueologically coloured, and some of them with the surface pology I he 

 6-inch survey is remarkable for the full contouring, every 25 feet of the hiU-sides. 

 The25dn. man has just been published. ' A lithographed copy of part of the i-m. 

 map has been printed for useat Sedbergh School, and n.ay be obtamed from the 

 school bookseller, Mr. Jackson. The scenery is described m Rev.^W. Thompson s 

 'Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent' and in the ' Craven Highlands, by H. Speight 

 The 'Flora of West Yorkshire,' by Arnold Lees, and Davis and Lees ^\5st 

 Yorkshire," are almost too well-known to need mention. ' Florula Sedberghensis, 

 by Rev. \Y. Thompson, and Mr. Tohn Handley's 'Sedbergh, a few notes on_ its 

 Flora,' are valuable tracts. The Geological Survey have published Explanation 

 of Quarter Sheet 98, S.E.' (including Helm Knott, Holme tell), and 'Explana- 

 tion ofOuarter Sheet 98, N.E. ' {Sedbergh, Tebay, and Kendal). Those vvho 

 still possess the Y.N.U. Circular of the 1887 meetmg will imd it useful. The 

 report of that meeting was published in the ' Naturalist,' 1887, page 279, and is 

 followed on ivnge 2S5,^by Mr. Joseph A. Martindale's ' Sedbergh District Lichens. 

 -The '■ Sedber^^hian,' July, 18S9, contains a list of Inrds reported to have bred near 



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