HEADQUARTERS.— The Lodge, Roche Abbey. 
ROUTES. party will be formed at the Maltby Terminus under the 
guidance of Mr. Snelgrove and others on the arrival of visitors leaving 
Kotherham by the 10-10 tram. If desired a party \vi 1 be made up to visit the 
New Colliery in Maltby Wood. 
" Conveyance. — Maltby is eight miles from Kotherham. There is a 
regular tram and tr-tbey bus service. Single journey Gd. Trams (Broom Road) 
leave the bottom of Wellgate at 7-40 a.m. and every half-hour until 12-10, af'er- 
wards every 25 minutes. The journey occupies 38 minutes. 
Accommodation.— Visitors desiring to stay the week-end may obtain 
private loggings m the village. Mr. E. Sneigrove, Whiteley Wood, Sheffield, 
has a few addresses which he will be glad to supply to members in request. 
In order to assist late arrivals a notice will be put up at Headquarters 
indicating as lar as possible the route intended to be traversed. 
PERMISSION to visit King's Wood and Roche Abbey has been liindly 
granted by the Earl of Scarborough, and for the garden and grounds at Firbeck, 
by Mr. W. C. Meredith. 
Members are also invited to visit the Museum in Clifton Park. The 
Curator, Mr. H. Moore, F.R.M.S , writes:- This Museum was formerly the 
residence of and was built by Joshua Walker, Esq., in 1787. The property (56 
acres) was acquired by the Kotherham Corporation and opened as a Public 
Park in 1892. The house was opened as a Museum in 1S93. The collections 
consist of Art — {a) Paintmgs, Bronzes, Pottery. Metal Work, &c., lent by the 
Board of Education ; {b) Private loans of Oil Paintings, Water Colours, 
Engravings and Pottery ; (c) Reproductions of Sculptures and Bronzes ; Natural 
History — Collections of local Birds, Eggs, and Lepidoptera lent by the Rotherham 
Naturalists' Society. 
GEOLOGY. — The Geological Section will be officially represented by one 
of its Secretaries, Mr. C. Bradshaw, F.C.S. 
Mr. Bradshaw writes: — The journey from Rotherham to Maltby, by way of 
Wickersley and Bramley, is over well-marked sandstones and shales near the 
top of the Middle Coal Measures Series. Alternation of these rocks gives that 
undulating aspect to the scenery which is characteristic of coal bearing strata. 
The first outcrop of sandstone crossed is the problematical Red Rock, upon 
which a considerable part of the town of Rotherham is built. This deposit, 
according to Green, occupies an eroded hollow in the underlying measures, to 
which it is unconformable. Its particular mode of sedimentation, and the exact 
phase of tbe coal measure period which it represents, have not yet been satis- 
factorily determined. No doubt, however, prevails as to the stratigraphical 
position of the Dalton Rock, and the succeeding well-known Wickersley Rock, 
which are also met with on the journey. All three sandstones have been 
quarried for building purposes, and for grindstones and other uses connected 
with the hardware industries. 
The immediate neighbourhood of the meeting — Maltby and Roche Abbey — 
is occupied by Lower Magnesian Limestone, escarpments of which are observed, 
when approaching Maltby village, to give a somewhat bolder and more 
picturesque character to the landscape. This effect is appreciated more fully 
after passing through the old part of the village, and viewing the prospect from 
the left side of the valley through which the Maltby stream flows to Roche 
Abbey. Along this route weathered crags of limestone are very conspicuous, 
and several fairly good sections may be inspected. At Hooton Levitt Mill the 
stream is said to cut through the Magnesian Limestone to the coal measures 
beneath. Perhaps the best section of the dolomite rock occurs in a quarry just 
above the Abbey. Here can be seen, in process of quarrying, large blocks of 
stone that are removed without much difficulty. When fresh the rock is white, 
like chalk, with a fine crystalline texture, but it is rather soft for use in outdoor 
situations On exposure its saccharine sparkle is soon lost, and the surface of 
the stone takes on a dull grey hue, which detracts from its appearance. Some 
beds rather lower down in the series, in the valley, are considerably harder and 
more compact. The amount of magnesium carbonate in the Lower Limestone 
has been found to reach as much as 40 per cent. There are no records of fossils 
from the beds referred to, but near Laughten-en-le-Morthen, Mr. Gibbs collected 
the following: — Teribratula, sp. Produ:tus horridus, Sow., Monotus speluncaria, 
Schloth, Bakevellia ceratophaga, Schloth, Pleurotomaria antrina. Schloth, Turbo sp. 
Fossils have also been found at the Brookhouse and Carr quarries. 
