secretary's report. 
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extended Field Excursion for the examination of the northern 
slopes of the Cleveland Hills. On Friday, August 4th, the party 
were met at 8exho^y Station, and the way was taken through 
the picturesque village of Carlton to Carlton Bank, which was 
ascended. The spoil-heaps of the old jet workings were passed 
on the way, and a good exposure of the fossiliferous Middle 
liias was examhied. An inspection was also made of the old 
workings of the Carlton Alum Works. Raisdale was crossed 
and several foreign boulders were picked up en route. The party 
then clambered round the steep escai-pment of Cringley Moor, 
and an ascent made to a fine exposure of the Dogger on 
the flank of Cold Moor. This deposit is of great interest, 
being full of well-rounded pebbles of a white limestone which 
has not been identified with any known rock. The matrix was 
full of fossils, and one of tlie largest pebbles was a fine 
specimen of Thamnastmea. Crossing the moorland Bilsdale was 
reached and the ascent made to the Wainstones, a picturesque, 
weathered escarpment of the Lower Estuarine Beds. 
Hasty Bank was then descended to Greenhow Park, and 
the party returned by wagonette to Stokesley. After dinner 
at the Bay Horse Hotel, the General ^Meeting was held under 
the presidency of Mr. Robert Bell Turton, of Kildale Hall. 
A paper " On the Pvoman Roads in the East Riding of York- 
shire " was read by the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S., and 
one " On a Peat Deposit at Stokesley " by the Rev. John Ha well, 
M.A,, F.G.S. Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.G.8., gave a description of 
some recent and interesting evidence on the condition of Cleve- 
land in the glacial period, which tended to prove that the mouth 
of the Tees was choked by the North Sea ice when the Teesdale 
glacier pushed its way into Cleveland. The highest level Drift 
deposits along the slopes of the Clev^eland Hills consist almost 
entirely of erratics of a northern type, which would hardly have 
been the case had the Teesdale glacier obtained an earlier access 
to the sea. Subsequently by the retreat of the North Sea glacier 
the western stream was able to push oat seawards and force 
its way along the shoreline to the south. During this period 
