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would be highly interesting to me, but I should be sorry to give 

 you any trouble in obtaining it for me. An old man living at 

 South Bank recently sent me a most interesting account of his 

 experiences in 1840, when the artificial lakes at Kildale burst 

 and deluged the country about Great Ayton and Stokesley. I 

 am fond of obtaining bits of information respecting the past 

 history of Cleveland." 



Conchology also interested him and in 1897 he wrote to Mr. 

 Thomas : — " I fear I have no report to make this time on behalf 

 of the Conchological Committee. My own collection of British 

 Land and Fresh Water Shells being practically complete, such 

 natural history exploration as I have done has been almost 

 entirely in other departments. I made a few records of marine 

 mollusca on the coast, but they are not worth making a special 

 report of. I spent most of the month of June last in the Crag 

 District of Suffolk and brought back material out of which I 

 have since worked out over 300 species of fossils, and over 12,000 

 specimens. The sorting and determination of these has absorbed 

 very many of the fragments of time which I have been able to 

 spare for Natural History pursuits. I have obtained a fair 

 number of fossils from the Yorkshire lias during the year, but 

 nothing worthy of special mention. A slab of Ichthyosaurian % ^ 

 remains from the zone of Ammonites Serpent inus at Port Mul- 

 grave, and a specimen or two of the crustacean Pseudogh/phcea £ t 

 Etalloni from a nodule in the zone of Ammonites </ ommunis at 

 Boulby old Alum Works, are the most interesting Liassic finds 

 that I can call to mind. These were both obtained during the 

 visit of the Yorkshire Geological Society to the coast in the 

 autumn. During that excursion two very notable finds were 

 made at Saltwick Nab, a little outside the Cleveland boundary. 

 Two species of gastropoda obtained by Mrs. Kendall from the Q~ /^ & 

 zone of Ammonites Iperpentinus at that point are new to the « 

 Yorkshire Lias, and I think, new to science. These I described " *- 

 in a paper read at the Annual Meating of the Yorkshire 

 Geological Society at, Wakefield, in October, under the name « 

 of Turbo Salt itcieu sis and Actcvonina Kendallii. The paper \r-*-'« £ 

 is being printed with an illustrative plate, of which I enclose 

 you a first proof, not quite accurate, in the Annual Proceedings 

 of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 



I have in preparation a paper dealing with the Conchology of 

 Cleveland, Land, Fresh-Water and Marine, but it will be some- 

 time I fear, before it is sufficiently complete for publication. 

 The Cleveland Club will probably not be able to afford to print 

 its proceedings every year, and if there is not much material 



