Doncaster Scientific Society
A very beautiful and interesting series of lantern slides were exhibited at the last meeting of the above society, illustrative of a holiday during the past summer in Yoredale, or Wensleydale, by Mr. R. A. Bellamy, who also read an essay descriptive of the scenery displayed by the lantern.

A map of the district was first thrown upon the screen, enabling all present to get a good idea of the geographical position of Yoredale, its accessibility by rail, and the best centres from which to make excursions.

Taking Askrigg as his headquarters, the lecturer had, as he expressed it, “gone waterfall hunting,” but falls were by no means all that he had captured. Ancient and picturesque buildings, landscapes, village scenes, disused and ruined “stocks,” etc., were interspersed throughout the lecture, furnishing interesting subjects alike for the antiquary and the lover of natural beauty; while the grand sections exposed in the gorges of the becks served to arouse feelings of envy among the geologists of the society who had not visited the locality.

All the slides exhibited were good. Perhaps the most interesting among the waterfall pictures were those showing differences in character between falls over limestone and grits, the former having by chemical action worn deeper into the stone than the latter, in which mechanical action alone was at work.

by Mr. R. A. Bellamy