N.B.— The Railway Booking eierks will only grant these reduced 
fares to Members and Associates producing a Special Certificate 
signed by the Secretary of the Union. Members and dissociates 
wishing tor this Certificate must apply to Mr. Sheppard for it. 
and must enclose a stamped directed envelope and their current 
card of membership of the Union, which latter will be returned 
with the Certificate. Kt stations on the N.E. Rly. tickets at the 
reduced fares will be issued on production of the signed card of 
membership. 
BOOKS AND MAPS.— The district is included in Sheet XVIII. N.E. 
{six inches to the mile) and the Sheets N. and S. of the One-Inch Ordnance Mai3, 
which may be obtained geologically coloured. Information regarding the botany 
and geology of the district will be found in "North Yorkshire," by J. G. Baker, 
F.K.S., F.L.S. (V.X. U. Trans.) ; and in "Geological Rambles in East York- 
shire," by T. Sheppard, F.G.S. 'V- 
THE DISTRICT to be investigated is the Sea Coast, consisting of bold 
headlands between Skinningrove and Staithes, with a rocky beach exposed at half 
tide, and the Glen through which Kilton Beck and its tributaries run from the 
Moorlands to Kilton Viaduct. 
Members should book for Loftus station if arriving on Friday night. Those 
travelling on Saturday morning may alight at Skinningrove station by trains due 
there at 10-47 from Middlesbrough and Saltburn, and join the earlier parties by a 
short cut to the coast or i\\> the Kilton Glen. T.oftus is on the Saltburn and Whitby 
Railway ; for train service see North Eastern Railway Guide. 
ROUTES. — The geologists arriving on Friday night will start from Loftus and 
reach the coast at Skinningrove Bay (distance one mile) and proceed along the coast 
to Staithes if time and tide permit. Those arriving later will alight at Skinningrove 
station and follow the earlier party. The botanists and members of other sections 
will start from Loftus and proceed by way of Liverton Mines to Kilton Woods 
(half-mile). Later arrivals will alight at Skinnington station and drop down into 
the ravine, following the upward course of the stream until they overtake the 
earlier party. 
Mr. J. J. Burton will accompany the geologists, and Mr. Tom Loftus the 
botanists and those investigating Kilton Woods. 
Kilton Beck and its tributaries have cut very deej) ravines froiii their source in 
the high moorlands to where they join the sea in Skinningrove Bay. The main 
streams and the lateral ravines are heavily timbered, and as they are beautifully 
sheltered vegetation is luxuriant, and the}- are a happy hunting ground for "the 
naturalist. The ravine, is pictures(jue almost to the romantic. The coast here 
gives probably the finest section of the Lias to he found anywhere, although the 
cliffs from being so extremely precipitous are almost inaccessible. The beach is rock 
strewn and will provide plenty of work for the hammer. On the top of Boulby (or 
Rockclirte) there ai"e remains of very extensive alum works and workings. 
Memljers staying the week end may, by the courtesy of the Cargo F'leet Iroil 
Co., Ltd., go over Liverton Ironstone Mines, one of the best equipped mines in 
Cleveland. 
HEADQUARTERS.— Golden Lion Hotel, Loftus-in-Cleveland. Those 
retpiiring bedroom accommodation should write early to Mr. Nicholson, the pro- 
l)riet()r. Terms : bed, breakfast, and dinner, 7/- each. Accommodation may al?;o 
be had at the Waverley Temperance Hotel, Loftus-in-Cleveland. 
PERMISSION to visit their properties has been kindly granted by W. H. A. 
Wharton, Escj., \'iscount Downe, and the Marquis of Zetland. 
GEOLOGY. — The Geological Section will be officially represented by Mr. 
Cosmo Johns, F.G.S. 
Mr. W. Y, Yeitch, M.R.C.S., F.G.S., writes : — Kilton Castle and Woods. 
The surface geology of Kilton and the neighbourhood is of lower oolite, very freely 
covered with boulder clay. Denudation has varied the scenery and even made 
romantic the woods, and valleys and the site of what remains of Kilton Castle, from 
which commanding position we are enabled to see the highest cliff headland in 
England on looking to the east, and turning westward the prominent conical 
I'Teeborough Hill marks the highest geological point, it being capped with middle 
