An excursion of the members of the society was made on July 21st to 23rd to Patrington, Easington, Kilnsea, and Spurn Point, and to Hornsea, Skipsea, and Ulrome, all in the district of Holderness. The party, on arriving at Patrington, were conveyed in carriages to the Neptune Inn, at Easington, where Mr. Lawton, the landlord, had tea in readiness. This part of the proceedings being completed, the carriages were re-entered, and the party drove to Kilnsea, a small village at the commencment of the narrow ridge of sand constituting Spurn Point. Two examples of the old refuse heaps or kitchen middens were visited, the first on the coast washed by the German Ocean, the second about 200 yards up the Humber, beyond the point where the road reaches the village. The early inhabitants appear to have selected or constructed a hollow in the glacial clays, about nine or ten feet broad, perhaps 60ft. in length, and four or five feet deep in the centre, with sloping sides. In this hollow they deposited the refuse from cooking, and other matters. The situation of the midden is usually indicated by a layer of oyster shells. The loamy soil above these is soft and comparatively loose, frequently a dark brownish black colour. It contains broken bones of the cow and sheep; and to a less extent of some other animals, of birds, &c., which served for food. Broken pottery of a coarse material and only partially burnt, thin Roman-like bricks and pieces of ...