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THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION 



IN LOWER WENSLEYDALE. 



In brilliantly fine and sunny — not to say hot^ — weather, the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union opened their excursion season of 1888 on AVhit- 

 Monday, the 21st of May, when they visited Leyburn, for the exami- 

 nation of so much of the picturesque northern escarpments of Wens- 

 leydale as lay between Bolton Castle and Leyburn. Only one line of 

 route was planned out, and all the members, amounting to about 

 eighty in number, assembled at Redmire Station about mid-day, some 

 having been in the district over the week-end. The party was in 

 charge of Messrs. Wm. Home, F.G.S., Arthure (President of the 

 Leyburn Society), J. A. Rod well (manager of the Keldheads Mines), 

 ,and Edward Chapman, of Carperby (from whose pen emanated the list 

 of Wensleydale birds published in The Naturalisi for June 1886). 

 The party first made their way to Bolton Castle, and there examined 

 the little museum of ethnological and arch^ological objects formed 

 by the Hon. W. T. Orde-Powlett. The route was then taken by the 

 main body for Redmire Scars, a few ornithologists making their way 

 to Locker Tarn above Carperby, and the conchologists pushing on 

 direct for Scarth Nick, where they were rejoined by the main body. 

 The Keldheads Mines were then inspected, and then the whole party 

 Vv'orked their way along the Shawl to Leyburn. Permission had been 

 most kindly granted by Lord Bolton for members to visit his estates. 



Arrived at Leyburn, a substantial tea was provided at the Golden 

 Lion Hotel, and the sectional and general meetings were held at the 

 Public Hall, for the use of which the Union were indebted to the 

 local Society. The general meeting was held ten minutes before the 

 announced time, most of the members being present, and as there was 

 a wide-spread desire to be out in the fine evening, the business was 

 curtailed. In the absence of the president and of all the vice- 

 presidents, Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S., of Leeds, Chairman of 

 the Yorkshire Boulder Committee, was voted to the chair. The 

 minutes of the preceding meeting were then taken as read, and 

 passed. The Hull Scientific Club, and the Ellesmere School Natural 

 History Society (Harrogate) were then unanimously admitted into 

 the Union. The following new members were then elected by an 

 unanimous vote, each having been first duly proposed and seconded : 

 — Rev. T. G. Butterworth, M.A., Headingley near Leeds ; Robert 

 Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Stirling ; Robert Law, F.G.S., Halilax ; 

 Angus Macpherson, Coatham ; Charles Oldroyd, Snainton near 

 Heslerton ; Rev. W. Hunt Painter, Knyi)ersley Hall near Congleton ; 

 C. Arth ur Payne, Baldersby ; Sir H. Beresford Peirse, Bart., Bedale 



June 1888. 



