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HOTEL ACCOMMODATION.— Members will fmd accommodaUon at 

 any of the hotels at Flamborough or Bridlington Quay. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The district for investigation is incKided in Sheets 

 55 and 65 (fonncrly 95 S.E. and 94 N.E.), one-inch Ordnance Maps (also pub- 

 lished geologically coloured). Reference may be made to I'hillips' 'lUustrations of 

 Yorkshire Geology,' to his ^Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-coast of Yorkshire,' and to 

 both editions of Baker's 'North Yorkshire.' The Rev. Robert Fisher's 'Hand- 

 book to Flamborough Village and Headland' ( 1894) price i/- paper, 3/6 cloth, 

 containing a large amount of information on all branches of natural history (Mr. 

 Matthew Bailey's chapter on birds being particularly useful) is indispensable. 



THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC 



SOCIETY hold their Summer Excursion at Filey, on Thursday and Friday, June 

 27th and 28th, and will unite in the excursion to Flamborough. Any member o\ 

 the Y.N.U. who would like to join in the Y.G. & P. Excursion can obtain full 

 particulars on application to the hon. sec. Rev. W. L. Carter, Uopton, Mirfield. 



SATURDAY'S ROUTES. —The trains leaving Scarborough at 8-30 a.m. 

 and Bridlington at 9-22 a.m. will be specially stopped at Bempton Station for 

 Routes I. and II. 



I.^Geologists will start from Bempton Station, at 9-30 a.m., under the leadership 

 of the Rev. W. L. Carter, M.A., F.G.S., and Mr. J. W. Stather, P^G.S., 

 and make their way to Old Dor. Thence the cliff path will be followed to 

 the North Landing and on to the Lighthouse. YIembers arriving by later 

 trains should take the same route and meet the main party at North Landing. 



11. — Ornithologists and others wishful to see the birds on Buckton and BempLon 

 Cliffs, and to watch the 'egg-climmers,' will alight at Bempton station. 



'III. — Botanists and naturalists generally will hnd the Dane's Dyke, a sheltered 

 locality, peiliaps the best field of investigation. The depressions on the coast 

 ; formed by land-slips will also be found productive for botanists and others. 



Marine ZoolO(^.y. — The excursion is particularly intended for the invesliga- 



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tion of the littoral fauna at the South Landing (scpiare C 4 on map) under 

 the direction of Mr. J. Darker Butterell. 



Low Tide on Friday, 28lh, about 2-30 p.m. ; on Saturday, 29th, about 3-15 ; 

 and on Sunday, 30th, about 4 p.m. 



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The Rev. Robert Fisher, M.A., and Mr. Matthew Bailey will take jwrt in the 

 excursion. Members intending to avail themselves of Routes HT. and IV. will be 

 met at Flamborough Station on the arrival of all the trains between 9-6 a.m. and 

 12-34 p.m., and receive hill directions. 



Permission to visit their estates is kindly granted by Miss Cottrell-Dormer 

 and ]\Tr. Yar burgh G. Lloyd-Greame. 



GEOLOGY. — The Geological section will be ofhcially represented by its 

 President, Mr. S- Chadwick, F.G.S., and its Secretaries, Rev. W. Lower Carter. 

 ■M.A., F.G.S., and Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. 



The Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., writes : — The beds to be examined 

 during the excursion are the Middle Chalk with Hints, which forms the mass of the 

 cliff from Buckton to Selwicks, and the Upper Chalk without flints which begins to 

 come in at the Lighthouse and forms the cliffs on the Ikidlington side of the head- 

 land. Capping these are a scries of glacial beds, consisting of a broad ridge oi 

 gravels and boulder clays. These are shown in tine sections along the coast-line 

 between the Lighthouse and Bridlington, and consist near Sewer! ly of two or three 

 bands of houlder clay, separated by stratified deposits, and overlaid by a consider- 

 able thickness of chalky gravel (the Sewerby gravels). These beds have been very 

 completely described by Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.(}.S., in Q.J.G.S., xlvii., 3S4. 

 At Old Dor the chalk is throwii into magnihcent folds from the top to the bottom 

 of (he cliff, 275 feet in height. The cliffs between JJempton and Thornwick Bay are 

 almost vertical, and give beautiful examples of all the stages of marine denudation. 

 At Thornwick Bay the chalk is worn into picturesque pinnacles and arches, and a 

 series of fine caves has been worn out by the force of the waves. In the centre of 

 Selwicks Bay, there is 'a fault in the chalk, accompanied by much contortion and 

 the formation of veins of calcite in the shattered rock.' This fault brings down the 

 Upper Chalk into the cliffs for a short distance. Near the Lighthouse there are two 

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