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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



purpose, and you will not be long before the sacred numbers of 

 your fossils are identified and real names substituted in the place 

 of the numbers. This is one of the reasons why I begin this series of 

 papers with the list of Foraminifera found in the same washings of 

 the Northumberland Shales, which I have searched so earnestly for 

 Polyzoa. 



So that tliese shales may be well searched for the organic forms 

 which are so abundant in them, I shall feel it to be a pleasure to help 

 any student by naming the Polyzoa or Foraminifera for them ; or I 

 shall be glad to receive lists of additional species found in these or 

 any other North British Locality. 



( To be contiimed.) 



THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS^ UNION 

 AT HSLMSLEY. 



Brilliant weather again favoured the Yorkshire Naturalists on the Bank- Holiday- 

 Monday (4th August), when they visited Helmsley for the purpose of investigating 

 the upper part of the picturesque valley of the Rye, the noble demesnes of Lord 

 Scarborough at Buncombe Park, the fine old ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, the well- 

 wooded sides of Beckdale. the steep-sided ravines about Hawnby, and the 

 surrounding flat-topped oolitic moorlands. There were four principal lines 

 of route followed. The bulk of the members visited Beckdale, a highly pro- 

 ductive little valley running for about two or three miles N.N.W. from the 

 town, while some proceeded direct to Rievaulx. The geologists accompanied the 

 Rev. E. Maule Cole, and a small party of members interested in botany and 

 conchology drove to Hawnby, and from that place worked at the plants of the 

 lower end of Snailesworth Glen, and at the shells of Hawnby Hill. Tea was 

 served and all the meetings were held at the Black Swan Hotel, Helmsley. At 

 the general meeting, the Rev. William Fowler, M.A., of Liversedge, vice- 

 president, occupied the chair. The minutes of the Hawes meeting having been 

 taken as read, the roll of the Societies in union was called over in the usual way, 

 Avhen it was found that the following 1 7 (out of the 40 constituting the Union) 

 were represented: — Heckmondwike, Bradford {3 Societies), Leeds (3), York (2), 

 Selby, Driffield, Liversedge, Dewsbury, Scarborough, Malton, Ripon, and Hull 

 (Great Thornton Street). The attendance of individual members was about seventy 

 or eighty. The following new members were elected : — Mr. Thos. Collier, of 

 Ripon; yix. C. S. Roundell, M.P., of London; Miss Harriet J. Roundell, of 

 Gledstone, near Skipton ; Mr. H. J. Wilkinson, of York ; Mr. R. Thornton Dale, 

 Miss Emily Dale, and Miss Flora Dale, of Ilkley ; Rev. I. Harding, of Linthwaite, 

 near Huddersfield ; Mr. Edmund Grove, of Saltburn-by-the-Sea ; and Mr. 

 Herbert Prodham, of Allerston, near Pickering. Thanks were unanimously voted, 

 on the motion of INIr. S. Chadwick, of ]\Ialton, to Lord Feversham, the Rev. 

 O. A. Manners and Mr. H. W. Pearson, for permission so readily accorded to 

 visit their respective estates. The reports on the day's investigations were then 

 given by the spokesmen of the various sections, in the following order : — 



The report of the Botanical section had been prepared by its secretary (Mr. 

 George Massee, F.R.-VLS., of Scarborough), but in his temporary absence from 

 the meeting, it was given by the Rev. W. Fowler, who showed the more 

 interesting of the specimens found. Notwithstanding the dry weather plants were 

 abundant, 257 species of phanerogams being noted, mostly at Helmsley and 



Naturalist, 



