CONVEYANCES will meet ihe trains arriving at Arthington at 10-16, and 
from the North at 10-51, to convey Members to the north entrance of the Park. 
They will be at the same place again at 5 p.m. to take members back to Arthington 
for tea. Fare, 1/3 eacii. Will Members desiring seats in the conveyances inform 
Mr. Fortune at once, so that the desired accommodation may be arranged. As the 
district is convenient for anyone coming for the afternoon, arrangements may be 
made for conveyance to the Park, if the seats are booked beforehand. 
TRAINS. — For Leeds and the South, 6-19, 7-41, 9-1 p.m. For Harrogate 
and the North, 6-59, 7-41, 9-33 p.m. 
BOOKS AND MAPS— The whole area is included in Sheet 70 (formerly 
93 S.W.; of the Jne-Inch Ordnance Map, which may be obtained geologically 
coloured. It is also included in six sheets of the Six-Inch Map (188 N.W., N.E., 
S. E. and S. W. , and 203 N. W. and N. E. ) 
For information concerning the geology, and fauna and flora of the district, 
see V.N.U. Circulars numbers 76 and 141. 
THE DISTRICT appointed for this excursion includes the fine Harewood 
Park, with its varied wood and parkland, fish ponds and the ruined castle in the 
N.E. corner of the Park. Situated as it is, between the favourite hunting grounds 
of Ilkley and Otley on the West, and of Collingham and Wetherby on the East, 
this portion of the Wharfe Valley has received very little attention. 
The Leeds Naturalists' Club ask for the fullest and most detailed records, 
of even the commonest species, for the area of this excursion, which is one of the 
districts for which they keep records, and very little work has been done. 
HEADQUARTERS.— The Wharfedale Hotel, Arthington. 
PERMISSION to visit his property has been kindly granted by the Earl of 
Harewood. 
GEOLOGY. — Mr. E. Hawkesworth writes that the proposed route for the 
excursion does not offer much attraction to the geologist. The district is 
composed of the "Third Grits," the middle division of the Millstone Grit series. 
They consist of alternations of grits and shales. Geologists attending may find 
profitable employment in examining any exposures of the grits for pebbles other 
than quartz, and the shales for marine fossils, at the same time keeping a look out 
for "drift" deposits, or erratic pebbles, such as cherts and limestones, of which 
there is a sprinkling on the surface to the south, 
BOTANY. — Dr. F. Arnold Lees, who will accompany the Botanists, 
writes : — The lordly Harewood demesne, diversified as the surface is with fine 
timber of oak and wych elm ; refreshed beyond the original alder, ash and hazel, 
at the afforestation of "the Great Planting" in the late i8th century up to the 
Peninsular War, with mast wood and conifers; seems always to have had for the 
botanist a sameness, excusary of a lack of interest in the district. Records of 
particular species, from the day of John Dalton and Archdeacon Pierson down to 
that of Denny and Wood, are greatly fewer than from the lime-soiled tract of land 
to the East. The underlying rock is "flagstone" not rich in its floral products; 
and the extensive plantings of Dutch elm, beech and some iron-wood hornbeam, 
with many sweet chestnut trees (now noble and occasionally fruit-bearing), has 
somewhat increased the flora with species such as Helleborine atroviridis, Linton 
(introduced with soil at the roots of the original settings from elsewhere!). Among 
"suspects" the Alien Leopard's-Bane flaunts its cadmium-yellow crowns in the 
holt at the S K. corner of the estate's stone fence ; meddle-with-nature-gardener 
planted, amidst the natural-to-the-soil Red-campion, White Ramp and Green 
Mercury. In the Temple silva, too, the spotted leaf Lungwort, in purple bloom in 
Spring, and natural to the S. E. of England, used to flourish, but deliberately 
planted also. In the muddy plashes — not real "dew-ponds" — of the pastures 
towards Owlet Hall (significant title) and Eccup Reservoir, Lenormand's White 
Crowfoot grows, with the sweet White Water Crowfoot as well. Here and there, 
in and by brooklets, the bitter Cuckoo Cress {C.amara) silver petalled and purple 
anthered, will be prominent ; but Myosotis silvaiica, though not quite absent, is 
