2 " With the Yorkshire Naturalists'' 



merely names but descriptions. It would be as well, too, 

 if the general public copied men of science ia this respect, 

 and were a little more exact in the way they speak of 

 things. We should not then find such blunders made as 

 calling a whale a "fish or as by the asthmatical old lady 

 who complained that where she lived there were "equinoctial 

 gales all the year round." 



The Huddersfield contingent of the Yorkshire Naturalist 

 Union assembled at the Huddersfield Station to meet the 

 train due from Leeds at 10-10 a.m., when tbey joined 

 their brother naturalists from Leeds, Harrogate, and other 

 parts of Yorkshire and went on with them to Greenfield. 

 Other batches of the human species, and belonging to the 

 same Yorkshire Union, were already on their way to other 

 parts of Yorkshire. Some were traversing Crosland Moor, 

 Honley woods, Meltham, and Deerhill, conducted by 

 Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Primrose Hill. Others went to 

 Holmhrth, thence by Ford Inn, visiting the site of the 

 buried forest discovered four years ago, over Harden Moss 

 to Wessenden Head. Mr. J. W. Davis, F.G. S., of Chevinedge, 

 near Halifax, made a tour all by himself by train from 

 Elland to Huddersfield, where he observed several specimens 

 of perambulating humanity on the platform, which he duly 

 examined, and then proceeded (by train) to Marsden, to 

 await the arrival, in due course, at Blake Lee, of all the 

 other little armies of natnralists that were scaling the hills 

 and invading the valleys in every direction. I accompanied 

 the Greenfield detachment, which numbered twecty-two. 



At Greenfield station we were met by Mr. J. Hirst, of 

 Saddleworth, who had kindly consented to act as guide. 

 A more fortunate selection could not have been made. Mr. 

 Hirst has made a special study of the whole neighbour- 

 hood. He had something to say, not only about every pro- 

 minent feature in the district, but about every jutting 

 rock, every dell, every road, and almost every field. No 

 sooner had the ascent began from Greenfield station by a 

 bye-lane leading to Bill's o' Jacks, than ha drew attention 

 to the boulders wbich are seen on tbe sides of the road, 

 and embedded in the road itself. These, he said, were 

 foreign metamorphic boulders, and he particularly wished 

 the limit, i.e., where they ceased to be found, to be 

 noticed, and this was done, and doubtless the geological 

 section of the Union will take the hint and inquire into 

 the particulars of the glacial action which has caused 

 the travelling boulders to so suddenly stop in their 

 career. Near this boulder limit Mr. Hirst drew atten- 

 tion to Wharmton Tor, the peculiarity being that it is 

 the most northerly peak in this district known as a Tor, 

 the word usually applying to the conical hills in the 

 southern counties. The names of the places, too, showed 

 what had been the nature of the country in days gone by, 

 as, far on the horizon's verge was "Hart's" head, and 



