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These results lie had obtained principally by a detailed study of 

 the drift maps of the area. He added, " I am trying to arrange to 

 spend my Christmas vacation at some convenient central position 

 in Eskdale, i)robably at Grosmont, and I hope I may have the 

 pleasure and profit of your company on some of my excursions." 



The first day he came down to make his special study of the- 

 glaciation of the district, December 23rd, 1 898, I met Mr. Kendall 

 by appointment at (4oathland Station, and we made a traverse from 

 there to Egton Bridge. I had the pleasure of accompanying him 

 on very many of his tours of investigation, and I was present at 

 Burlington House Avhen the Paper was read And I deem it no 

 small honour to have been so intimately associated from first to- 

 last with the brilliant piece of work, the results of which are- 

 emliodied in this classical Pa])er. 



Of course, before Mr Kendall came doMn to commence his 

 special work, the general facts regarding the glaciation of the 

 district were well-known. The drift clays and gravels had been 

 map] led by the Officers of the Geological Survey. I had myself, at 

 the suggestion of my dear old master and friend. Sir Joseph 

 Prestwich, reported to the Boulder Committee of the British 

 Association on a series of 365 glacial blocks which I had 

 examined and made notes of in the Parish of Ingleby GreenhoAv,''' 

 several of my specimens having been inspected bj- Professor 

 Bonney and ]\ir. C. T. Clough, of the Geological Survey. But yet 

 Mr. Kendall's work has shed a flood of light on questions which 

 were shrouded in gloom when it was con)menced, and the solutions 

 relate not merely to our locality, but are of wide application, in 

 many cases at least. Cleveland will in the futxire be regarded as 

 the typical district in Britain of glacier-lakes and the connected 

 phenomena. 



This work of Mr. Kendall has enabled him to tell us exactly 

 where the ice-face stooil during the period of maximum extension 

 of the ice ; for not only has it left the niarks of its former presence 

 in the shape of morainic debris, but deej) and striking channels 

 cut by water flowing along the edge of the ice-face are there unto- 

 this day, which, though often filled up to some extent l)y a growth 

 of ]ieat, are almost as well defined as when they Avere made, and 

 form scenic features of no small interest. 



During the glacial epoch, the ice-cap, such as we find it now 

 in Greenland, crept southward in one mighty forward-sweeping 



(1) Sec- 15tli and 16tli Repoi-ts (if tlie Coiiiniittee, 1887 and 1888. 



