THE DISTRICT lo be invesiigaietl comprises the secluded valley of 
Kingsdale, liie high land in the North towards Dent, and (ireygartii (2,250 feet). 
Though nominally arranged for Norih-W est Yorkshire, the excursion is entirely in 
the division of Mid-West Yorkshire, lo which all records of locality are to be 
credited. 
Bradford Naturalists' Society. — The Ingleton area is within this Society's 
area of investigation : all records are acceptable by the Society for ttieir record 
books, and notes may be sent lo Mr. J. Beanland, Church Institute, Bradiord, 
Possibly the S(jciety will be represented. 
HEADQUARTERS. — The headcjuarters during the meeting will be at 
the Ingleborough Hotel, Ingleton. 
f Accommodation. — For those staying the week-end the terms are 6/- per day 
for bed, breakfast, dinner and attendance, either at the Ingleborough Hotel 
(Mr. Fisher) or at Mrs. Stinger's Private Hotel near the station. The existing 
accommodation is very limited, especially at the Ingleborough Hotel, where many 
rooms are already booked. Both Mr. Fisher and Mrs. Stinger will kindl) secure 
rooms in cases of inability to provide at either hotel. 
EVENING MEETING.— Mr. Cosmo Johns, F.G.S., the President of the 
Geological Section, has kindly promised to give an address on the geology of the 
district on Saturday evening. 
ROUTES. — Members on arrival, on Saturday, of the train due at Ingleton at 
10-2 a.m. from Skipton and the South, will proceed via Dale Beck to Keld Head 
and thence to Yordas Cave at the head of Kingsdale. After visiting the cave, the 
owner of Kingsdale Head Farm House kindly invites members to tea before or after 
exploring the lUimerous woods and watercourses (in the Yoredales) near to. 
The return will be along the Scars of Greygarth, calling at the Gingling and 
Kowting Pot Holes (dangerous and easily overlooked in hazy weather or fog : 
Rowting Hole is some 600 feet deep), and thence via Thorn on Force to Ingleton, 
where the last train leaves for the South at 7-35 p m. Tea and sectional 
meetings at 6 p.m. 
The excursion for Monday will be arranged by Members staying the week-end. 
Suggested Shorter Route. — For late arrivals. — Cross the Bridge and enter 
Mealbank Quarry at the limekihi end — note the lenticular coal seam — coming out al 
the top end of the Quarry ; continue up the stream through the gorge wiiii the 
waterfalls to beyond Beasley, and cross the rivei by the little footbridge just beyond 
the " Granite Quarry." Visit the Quarry. Return by the road until the waterworks 
enclosure is reached Go up behind to small quarry for fossils indicative of lowest 
fauna found in the Ingleton district in Carboniferous rocks. Return to Ingleton 
from there along the basement beds on the Common. 
PERMISSION to visit their properties lias been kindly granted by J. G. 
Robinson, Esq., and other landowners. 
N.B. — The Meml)ers of the Union are reminded that the grouse season is 
near and are retpiesied to keep away from the heather as much as possible; also 
to keep outside the wired-in rabbit warrens. There will proi)ably be shooters in 
the valley at the time of the visit. 
GEOLOGY. — The Geological Section wiH be officially represented by Mr, A. \ 
Harker, .M.A., F.R.S., Mr. Cosmo Johns, F.GS , and Mr. E. Hawksworth, t 
Mr. W. Robinson writes : — Whatever may have been the origin of the lonely 
and almost houseless Kingsdile Valley — the road through which rises both ways — 
it is not due to any folding of strata or other irregularity of the earth's surface. It 
lies almost flat on the strike of the rocks and is independent of geological structure, 
there being an absence of any synclinal depression or anticlinal weakness so 
frequently the cause of valley formation. But be the origin what it may. there is 
marked evidence that lacustrine conditions followed the oncoming of the glacial 
period, when vast masses of loose unsiratified materials were piled up at the outlet 
of the valley and ponded back the watercourses and rainfall. It was not till a J 
comparatively recent period, geologically speaking, that the pent-up waters were I 
able to cut through and escape the barrier thus produced. I 
As it now exists, this almost desolate, though wildly beautiful valley, may be I 
described as a broad alluvial flat with many lagoon-like jjools, surrounded, except I 
at the outlet, by the precipitous slopes of Whernside and Greygarth. 1 
