YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



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THE YORKSHIRE CARBONIFEROUS 



FLORA. 



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SIXTH RETORT 



On Bkhalf of the Yorkshire Fossil Flora Committee, 



FOR 1896. 



By ROBERT KIDSTON, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 



In presenting the Sixth Report on the Carboniferous Flora 

 of Yorkshire to the members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, the Committee wish to express their indebtedness to the 

 following workers, whose labours have supplied the material 

 from which the present Report is drawn up : to Dr. E. W. 

 Wellburn and Mr. R. Rothwell, Sowerby Bridge ; to Mr. E. 



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Broadbent, Sowerby ; to the late Mr. T. Saltonstall,Todmorden ; 

 to Mr. J. Spencer, Halifax; to Mr. J. W. Bond, Burmantofts, 

 Leeds ; to Mr. W. Gelder, Barnsley ; and above all to Mr. W. 

 Hemingway, Barnsley. 



To a newspaper notice, for which I am indebted to Mr. 

 E. Howarth, Curator of the Public Museum, Sheffield, my 

 attention was called to the cutting on the Midland Railway, 

 necessitated by the^ widening of the line at Brightside, near 

 Sheffield. As the rocks passed through were rich in fossil 

 plants, application for permission to collect specimens was made 

 to Mr. W. L. Mugliston, Superintendent of the Midland Rail- 

 way Co., who, along with the Chief Engineer, Mr. John Argyle, 

 very kindly gave every facility to Mr. Hemingway and 

 inyself to visit the locality and examine the material removed 

 fi'om the cutting. For this kind permission the Committee 

 wish to record their sincere thanks, as it enabled them to 

 collect 39 species from Brightside, a number which would 

 almost certainly have been increased, had we been able to visit 



