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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT LOFTUS, 



8th-ioth JULY 1905. 



A PLEASANT and profitable week-end was spent in Cleveland on 

 the occasion of the i88th meeting- of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union. Several members arrived at the Golden Lion Hotel 

 (the headquarters for the meeting) on Friday night, and the 

 party was considerably augmented on Saturday, especially by 

 the members of the Cleveland Naturalists' Club. 



The Liverton ironstone mine, remarkable for the up-to-date 

 nature of the machinery, etc., was first visited, after which the 

 party divided. The botanists were under the guidance of 

 Dr. W. G. Smith, and investigated the Kilton and Loftus 

 Valleys. Messrs. T. A. Lofthouse and M. L. Thompson accom- 

 panied the entomologists, and Mr. K. MacLean was responsible 

 for vertebrate zoology. . 



Cliff Section, Staithes to Saltburn. 



The geologists, led by Messrs. j. J. Burton and J. W. 

 Stather, followed the Kilton Beck to the coast, and then 

 traversed the beach round Hummersea Bay to Rockclifife and 

 Boulby Point, and on to Staithes. Many interesting objects 

 were noticed on the ramble. After dinner the whole party 

 visited the disused alum quarries at the top of Boulby Cliffs, 

 where Ammonites and other characteristic Liassic fossils were 

 found in great profusion. 



On the following day the party was conveyed by wagonette 

 to Marske, via Saltburn, to examine the plant bed exposed in 

 the quarry on the northern face of the Upleatham outlier. This 

 is the section described by the late J. Hawell in this journal for 

 August 1903 (pp. 312-317). Botanists and geologists alike 

 secured many fine examples of Williamsonia, Tceiiioptens, etc. 

 The ev^ening- was occupied in a discussion as to the original 

 source of the iron in the Cleveland Iron Ore. It was decided to 

 recommend to the Executive Conimittee of the Union that the 



Naturalist, 



