50 IHE YORKSHIRE CAVES. 



those that are acknowledged to have been the bones of Loxomma 

 Allmanni, I have been led to the conclusion that this specimen is 

 really the vertebral column, etc., of the animal to which that 

 name has been given. 



It was during close and unremitting work on the above specimen that 

 Mr. Atthey was seized by partial paralysis, which put an end to his labours, 

 and led to his death at the end of July, 1877.— D. E. 



VI. — The Yorhlme Caves : a Three Days' Trip with the Tyneside 

 Field Club, Septemler \4:-imh, 1882. By Thomas T. Claeke. 



The Trip to the Yorkshire Caves had been so often the subject 

 of pleasant anticipation amongst the members of our Club during 

 the preceding summer excursions, that it was with a feeling 

 something akin to disappointment when we reckoned up our 

 party to only eleven or twelve on getting out of the train at 

 Darlington. This number was however increased to fifteen by 

 some friends who had gone by an earlier train, with a view to 

 secure accommodation. In this they were not fortunate, for 

 when, after a walk of half-a-mile from the Ingleton Station, 

 through the gathering gloom of an autumn evening, we arrived 

 at the Ingleborough Arms Hotel, we were greeted by a sour 

 hostess, who surveyed us with looks so evidently lacking in wel- 

 come, and smote us with such fierce shafts from her fell eyes, 

 that half of our number, headed by the worthy Secretary, Mr. 

 Thompson, turned on our heels, to seek shelter in some more 

 humble but friendly hostel. 



Seven of us succeeded in gaining ready admittance to the 

 "Wheat Sheaf Inn, where we were ministered unto by a maiden 

 whose pleasant face would have lent a flavour to the dryest 

 crust, and whose manner made us feel perfectly at home, as she 

 smiled over a tray of ham and eggs and a fragrant urn of ripe, 

 rich congou. Then we felt the full force and truth of the poet 

 Shenstone's enthusiastic eulogy on an Inn, which our earlier 



