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scattered about in abundance. The party then proceeded under the 
great limestone scars to Stockdale Farm, a detour being made to 
examine a hirge vein of white quartz which marks the line of the mid- 
Craven fault. Attermere Scars were then climbed, and a visit paid 
to the renowned Victoria Cave in the face of Kingscar. After an 
enthusiastic vote of thanks had been passed to our leader for his 
extremely courteous and efficient conduct of the party, the shortest 
way was taken to Settle, where a visit was paid to the Giggleswick 
Museum, and its fine collection of relics of the various occupations of 
the Victoria Cave were inspected with much interest. Dinner at the 
Lion Hotel, Settle, under the presidency of the Hon. Secretary, 
terminated a most successful Meeting, noteworthy for perfect weather, 
genial leadership, and good comradeship all round. 
The Summer Meeting and Field Excursion was held at Whitby, 
on July 31st and August 1st, for the examination of the Coast 
Sections between Blea Wyke and Whitby. The Field Excursions 
were under the efficient leadership of Messrs. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., 
W. Y. Veitch, M.R.C.S., and the Rev. John Hawell, M.A. On Fri- 
day, July 31st, the members assembled at Robin Hood's Bay and 
made their way along the shore to Hawsker Bottoms, noticing the 
fine section of the Lower and Middle Lias beds exposed in the cliffs. 
At Hawsker the cliffs were ascended by a steep path, and most of the 
members walked back to Whitby. 
The second day's route was from Blea Wyke to Bay Town. The 
train was taken to Staintoudale Station, and the cliffs were gained by 
a cross-country path. A steep descent brought the party to Beast 
Cliff, the result of an old landslip of large dimensions. Here a most 
unusual scene, for the seaside, met the eye. Thick brushwood, fern, 
and heather, forming a jungle tlirough which progress was a matter 
of difficulty, amid which were pools containing water lihes and bul- 
rushes of two kinds. A way down the cliffs to the shore was found 
near Blea Wyke, and the rough mass of blocks that forms the beach 
there was slowly traversed. Good finds of characteristic fossils were 
bagged from the Dogger Beds at Blea Wyke and the Alum Shale at 
Peak. After examining the fault at Peak, Robin Hood's Bay was 
crossed, large numbers of Shap and other glacier-carried boulders 
