'25 



YORKSHIRE COAST EROSION COMMITTEE. 



REPORT FOR 1899 AND 1900.* 



THOMAS SHEPPARD, F.G.S., 

 Secretary, of the Cofnmittee ', Curator of the Municipal Museum, J lull. 



In view of the remarks made at the Annual Meeting of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, held at Scarborough in 1898, as 

 to the work of the Committees of the Union generally, an effort 

 has been made during the past two years to undertake a 

 systematic survey of the coast from the Humber to the Tees, 

 and thus justify the existence of the Coast Erosion Committee ! 

 This work, however, cannot be accomplished in one year, and 

 particulars of the measurements, etc., thus far obtained, are 

 consequently held over, and will be published, together with 

 other details, in a subsequent report. Once having obtained 

 a series of measurements at frequent and fairly regular intervals 

 along the coast, on the lines of those given by the Rev. E. M. 

 Cole, M.A., in the 'Naturalist' for April 1892 (pp. 103-107), 

 and May 1893 (pp. 142-144), arrangements will be made for 

 them to be checked periodically, and the results printed in this 

 journal. Mr. H. B. Muff, F.G.S. , has supplied us with some 

 measurements in the Whitby neighbourhood ; Mr. T. Petch, 

 B.A., B.'Sc, has measured some distances near Aldborough ; 

 and the late Canon Maddock, M.A., and Mr. J. W. Stather, 

 F.G.S., have visited South Holderness on the work of the 

 Committee. Whilst arrangements are being made for other 

 parts of the coast to be examined shortly, the Committee would 

 be glad to receive particulars of measurements from easily 

 recognisable points to the cliff edge at any other station along 

 the coast. Prof. John Phillips, in his ' Rivers, Mountains, and 

 Sea-coast of Yorkshire' (1855, PP- 2^2-383), gives a valuable 

 table of ' Distances from . . . objects to the nearest descents 

 in the Cliff,' between Bridlington and Spurn — nearly fifty 

 localities in all. It is very desirable that these distances should 

 be again measured, and the Committee, which is at present 

 engaged in this work, would be glad for any help in this direc- 

 tion. More records for the northern part of the coast are also 

 needed. 



* For previous reports see the ' Naturalist,' April 1 892, pp. 103-107, and 

 May 1893 , pp. 142-144. 



i<)oi April 1. 



