A YORKSHIRE NATURALIST 39 



Mjndf now rest side by side in the SUM volume of 

 their " Transactions." 



In 1876 Messrs. Tate and Blake published their 

 work on the Yorkshire Lias, in which they not only 

 confirmed but considerably extended the conclusions 

 at which I had arrived in 1834. But here again a 

 trivial arrangement on the part of the Geological 

 Society led into an unintentional injustice to me. 

 In printing our memoirs, the Society placed Mr. 

 Hunton's name in front of mine. This seems to 

 have suggested to the two authors the idea of Mr. 

 Hunton's priority. Commenting on our observations 

 on page 6 of their work, they say : 



" In 1836, in VoL V. of the second series of the 

 "'Geological Transactions' were published two 

 " papers ; Ike first by Louis Hunton, 'Accompanying 

 "'Remarks to a Section of the Upper Lias and Mari- 

 " ' stone of Yorkshire, showing the Limited Vertical 

 "'range of the species of Ammonites and other 

 "'Testacea, with their value as Geological Tests.* 

 "This paper contains very valuable information 

 "upon a limited portion of the series and is the 

 u first attempt to do what we have undertaken in the 

 "present work, namely, to localise the fossils in 

 "their various horizons. In the second paper by 

 " W. C Williamson, ' on the Distribution of Fossil 

 " ' Remains on the Yorkshire Coast,' the same work 

 " is attempted for the whole of the Lias, and the more 

 " easily acquired facts are accurately laid down." 



Messrs. Tate and Blake thus credit Mr. Hunton 



