FIELD MEETINGS FOR 1910 209 



castle plateau with the various sandstones, limestones and 

 shales underlying this formation, and the way in which they 

 had been altered by contact. 



On the sandhills were still in flower the burnet rose, whose 

 stem is covered with densely set prickles, and whose white 

 petals far exceed in size the leaves ; also the bloody cranesbill, 

 showing clearly the reason of its name, which is derived, not 

 from the colour of its petals, which are lighter in hue than 

 many of its congeners, but from that of its leaves, whose 

 colour is changed by the approaching autumn. 



After lunching among the romantic ruins of the Castle, and 

 viewing therefrom the flight of many species of sea birds — so 

 numerous at this part of the coast owing to the proximity of 

 their nesting places at the Fame Islands, gulls, cormorants, 

 eider ducks being observed in considerable numbers — the 

 party proceeded by way of Craster to Cullernose Point, where 

 the geologists obtained many interesting specimens of trilobites 

 and molluscs from the shales underlying the projection of 

 volcanic rock which forms the Point. 



On the way to Boulmer, where tea was procured, a wounded 

 brent goose was observed. The migrants from the Baltic 

 did not yet seem to have put in an appearance. 



After a brisk walk Alnmouth junction was reached just in 

 time to catch the last train to Newcastle, thus concluding the 

 last of a series of highly interesting and enjoyable field 

 meetings for 1910. 



