Contents
Reports.
The first Report (on Survey of
Redcliffe Caves) is now available price 2/6d. If there is sufficient demand Line Die, copies of the Survey (about
20 x 30) will be produced so write to the Hon. Sec. if you would like
one.
Annual Subscriptions
Annual Subscriptions are now
overdue, so will those members whose subscriptions are still unpaid please
remit to Hon. Sec. as soon as possible.
Funds are still needed for the
purchase of the Belfry Site and for a new tackle store any donations for the
above would be gratefully received. Please enclose any such sums with your annual subscriptions.
Clanger Dept.
The Editor has received the
following letter: –
Dear Harry,
In my last Derbyshire article,
printed in the recent B.B. I noticed a few place misprints, most likely due to
my rotten writing. However, I think it
would be most misleading to anyone contemplating a Derbyshire trip this year,
therefore I hope you wont mind me taking a liberty, and quoting corrections
just for reference.
Cheerio for now and all the best.
Stan Gee.
Oxlow-Marsh
Hill-system should read Oxlow-Maskhill system.
Adins Mine
should read Odins Mine.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Sorry Stan,
I should have known better the
mistakes were due to lack of concentration when proof reading.
T.H.S.
21st Year Festivities
Beginning Whitsun 1956 The Clubs
21st Year Festivities Saturday 21st May
2.30pm – 5.00pm – HUNT THE BOOZE
This will take place in
5,00pm – 6.00pm – Wash & Brush Up
6.00pm – 11.00pm informal buffet &
party in Wells
Sunday 22nd May
Serious caving
trips will be undertaken down most major cave systems.
Sunday Night – Bonfire
Monday 23rd May
Day of Rest
& Recovery
6.00PM – 11.00PM – At The Hunters Lodge Inn.
It is up to you the members of the
club to make this a success by turning up on time and joining in!
Change of Address.
A. Collins – Alfie 1,
Dennis Kemp. c/o Photographic Dept.,
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LABOUR is urgently needed for work
on the Belfry Site and for the transport of various materials from various
places so roll up in your thousands there is (I hope) work for all!.
Additions to the Library
The following have been added
recently to the Club Library: –
The Geology of
Adjoining Counties.
The
Caver.
The News N.S.S. Vol. 13 No. 10 October
1955
The News N.S.S. Vol. 14 No. 1 January
1956
The News N.S.S. Vol. 14 No. 2 February
1956
The News N.S.S. Vol. 14 No. 3 March 1956
Cave and Crag Club Vol. 4 No. 9 October
1955.
Cave and Crag Club Vol. 4 No. 10
November 1955
Cave and Crag Club Vol. 5 No. 1 January
1956.
Orpheus Caving Club Vol. 1 No. 1
November 1954.
The Descent of Pierre Saint-Martin. N. Casteret.
Cave Science No. 24 April 1955.
C.R.G. Newsletter No. 52 November 1955
C.R.G. Newsletter No. 53-54 December 1955.
C.R.G. Newsletter No. 55 January/February 1956.
C.R.G. Biological Supplement December 1955.
W.C.C. Journal No. 54 January 1956.
B.C.C.C. Newsletter No. 11 December 1955.
N.S.S. Newsletter No. 11 November 1955.
N.S.S. Newsletter No. 12 December 1955.
S.W.C.C. Newsletter No. 14 March 1956.
W.S.G. Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 12 March
1956.
Mendip Cave Group Newsletter No. 9 March 1956.
Brirish Caver Vol. 26 1955.
November 1954.
Your Librarian is still Johnny
Ifold at Leigh House, Nempnett, Chew Stoke, Nr,
List of Members.
Once again the Editor apologises
for the delay in publishing this list pressure of work has again made it
impossible this month, but dont despair it is in the forefront of his mind
but not yet on paper.
Notice.
Will all Climbing Section Members
especially those who instruct new members and the area as a training ground,
please note the following: –
Tyros Crack, Churchill Rocks.
Whilst climbing here recently, it
was noticed that the pitons which were formerly at the end of the first and
second pitches had been removed.
There is now no belay on this
climb until the trees at the top are reached, and since this is about 140ft. in
rope distance from the start of the climb, is of no use when using normal
length climbing rope.
Perhaps the next time the Rock
engineers visit the place, the pitons could be replaced.
Jack
Waddon.
Can Anyone Tell Me Why?
More Answers By?
The reason for the continued
existence of large fossils after their smaller counterparts in the surrounding
matrix have been eroded away is surely due to the fact that large bodies erode
or dissolve at a slower rate than smaller bodies of the same material, provided
the physical and chemical conditions do not vary greatly.
Imagining the fossils as spheres
with an occasional very large sphere (large fossil) imbedded in them, it is
easily shown that the surface area, and therefore, the rate of erosion, at the
surface of a large fossil, is proportionately much smaller than the area, and
erosion rate of a small fossil. Hence,
the larger the fossil, the longer it will continue to exists.
Important Research Work at Priddy
By Brian M. Ellis.
Several weeks ago, on a fine
Sunday morning, four cavers made an expedition into the depths of darkest
Priddy with the intent on making a very important scientific experiment. With this end in view, and no other was
present in our minds at the time we assure you, the four of us crossed the
sacred precincts of the New Inn sometime within the legally permitted period
of twelve till two in the afternoon. Because it was necessary for the success of the experiment that we had
in mind, four pints of rough are ordered and in the usual manner of speed by
both name and picture we had to wait fifteen minutes for these to be placed on
the table in front of us. At last there
were there; three-quarters of each pint were downed and then to work. The apparatus was assembled and everything
prepared, even Mr. Speed sensed the electrified atmosphere shuffling over to
the other side of the table, the better to see what strange going on within his
Public House. Dead silence and the
experimenter performed the first highly complex test. Then a worried look crossed his brow and he
consulted his book of pictures (he cannot read) and then went into consultation
with his three assistants. After a very
long time it was not agreement but compromise that was reached, the answer lay
somewhere between, two and seven; whatever that might mean. Undeterred by this lack of correlation the
experimenter prepared to make a second and more specific test. Breathing ceased temporarily in excitement.
The apparatus was again set up and the test made. Another result obtained, the book was again
consulted and a conference of expeditions members called. Meanwhile, the interested (?) spectators
waited impatiently for the result which they were sure would startle the world;
would the result be as high as expected? This question, I can assure you, was absent from all minds present
they were all too busy wondering who was going to pay for the next round.
At long last he leaned back with a
half-satisfied look on his face and the silence was only broken by the sound of
four mugs being drained. The moment had
arrived and he spoke, The pH of Sylvesters rough is 3.5. No one but he even knew what pH meant or did
– but what did it matter, it had been a novel excuse for a drink and it might
interest someone or other.
Acknowledgements are recorded to
the three assistants, Miss A. George, and Mr. and Mrs. T. Neil and whichever
one of them it was who paid for the drinks. Thanks also go to the person, unknown, who made the experiment possible,
the person who left the set of wide and narrow range Indicator Papers lying
around in the Belfry.
Despite everything, the result of
pH 3.5 was genuinely obtained; if that means anything to you. In case you dont
know what pH is, it is the logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the
hydrogen concentration. Better?
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R.J. Bagshaw, Hon. Sec. 56,
Knowle, Bristol.4.
T.H. Stanbury Hon. Editor.
Knowle,
4.