And here, another relative point may be alluded to. 

 We are glad to find that our able curator, Mr Martin 

 Simpson, has re-published his Hand-book on the 

 Geology of the Yorkshire Coast, to which he has 

 added sectional illustrations. The work, for its value, 

 has been much in request, and apart from its general 

 use on the subject of Geology, Its details display in 

 ah admirably comprehensive form, the rich field In 

 those matters which the Immediate neighbourhood 

 of Whitby presents. We learn that in studying the 

 Geology of the Yorkshire coast, much assistance 

 may be derived from the Museums of Whitby and 

 Scarborough. The Scarborough Museum, as might 

 be expected, is the richest In fossils of the Oolite and 

 the strata above It; whilst the Whitby Museum 

 contains, along with a good collection of Oolite and 

 Cretaceous fossils, a very full and valuable collection 

 of the Lias fossils of the district. Including several 

 large fossil saurians, especially the almost unique 

 Teliosaurus or Crocodile, discovered in the adjacent 

 cliff In 1824. This kind of statement may not be 

 overlooked, as shewing in a marked degree, that the 

 Society and Its supporters are carrying out the object 

 for which the Institution was established. 



The Lecture-room hitherto used by the Society 

 proving Inconveniently small on several occasions, 

 the Committee of the Subscription Library have 



