N.B. — The Railway Booking Clerks will only grant these reduced fares to Members 
mnd Associates producing a Special Certificate signed by the Secretary of the Union. 
Members and Associates wishing for 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. At 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 whole area is included in Sheets 92 N.E. and 
S. E., nf the One-inch Ordnance Map, which may be obtained geologicallv 
coloured. See also Paper and Map "Geographical Distribution of \'egetation 
in Yorkshire, Part 2, Harrogate and Skipton District," by W. G. Smith and 
W. M. Rankin (Geog. Journal, August, 1903). 
THE DISTRICT to be investigated is the upper portion of the Washburn 
\'alley, especially that portion surrounding the reservoirs of Swinsty and Fewston. 
HEADQUARTERS. — Hopper Lane Hotel, Blubberhouses, via Otley. 
ROUTES. — Wagonettes meet trains at Harrogate station, start from 
station at 10-30 a.m., drive to Fewston via Stainburn Moors and Little Almais 
Cliff ; members get off at the bottom of Swinsty reservoir and work up each 
side of the reservoirs to Blubberhouses. 
Return fare by drags, 3/- each — about 16 miles drive there and back. 
Geologists may, if they prefer it, go direct to Hopper Lane in the conveyances 
and work up the Kex Gill Pass, returning by Penny Pot Lane and Birk Crag. 
Members who intend being present should send word to the Local 
Secretary, in order that seats in conveyances may be arranged. 
PERMISSION to visit their properties has been kindly granted by the Leeds 
Corporation, W. J. Galloway, Esq., and Lord Walsingham. 
GEOLOGY. — The Geological Section will be officially represented by its 
President, Mr. Cosmo Johns, F.G.S., and Mr. E. Hawkesworth, one of its 
Secretaries. 
Mr. E. Hawkesworth writes : — Compared with the two previous meetings of 
this year, the district does not present any features of special interest to the 
geologist. The rocks of the whole area belong to the Millstone Grit series. The 
"shell bed" (Cayton Gill Beds), a fossiliferous marine band, between the 
Follifoot and Plompton Grits, is mapped around Fewston, and geologists are 
recommended to look for exposures of it, and record the fossils, also to examine 
any sections of shales which intervene with the beds of grit. 
BOTANY. — The Botanical Section will be officially represented. 
Flowering Plants. — Mr. W. G. Smith, Ph.D., writes: — This excursion is 
well adapted for the examination of the flora of woods on sandstones and shales. 
LindVey Wood, which extends along one side of the Leeds reservoir, is a t}pical 
oak wood with a varied undergrowth, which should at this season yield many 
interesting plants. Several other woods occur in the valley : these are either fairly 
pure oak or oak mixed with pine. The remainder of the route along the 
Washburn will give opportunity for observation of plants of the stream bank, 
and of old pastures. There is now no arable land in the valley, although 
formerly much of the land has been ploughed. 
Mr. P. Fox Lee writes : — At this period of the year the botanists may 
be sure of an interesting day in the picturesque valley of the little river Washburn. 
In 1883, on the occasion of the Union's former visit to the Washburn Dale, the 
discovery was made oC Ceterach ojjiciiiaruni^ growing on Pool Bridge, and it 
