CHAPTER III 



Story of tumulus Ransom and Binion's visit to Scar- 

 borough Dr. Phillips' visit Peak Hill journey My 

 leaving Scarborough discussed York mail Invitation 

 to and appointment in Manchester Science in East 

 Yorkshire Nature of coast Chalk and Speeton clay 

 Judd Oolites and Lias Early abundance of fossils, 

 Kettleness ammonites, &c. Modern scarcity Opera- 

 tive collectors Rudd and Peter Young and- Bird's 

 book Young's ignorance Rise of Phillips and the 

 York circle Scientific men at Hull, Leeds, Whitby, 

 Newcastle, Durham, and Berwick. 



ANOTHER branch of study occupied me during my 

 medical apprenticeship. In the early part of this 

 century a large amount of attention was being paid 

 both in Great Britain and Ireland, as well as in 

 Denmark and other northern parts of Europe, to 

 antique remains, especially the tumuli, then so abun- 

 dant. These researches were promoted at home by 

 Sir Richard Cole Hoare at this early period ; and 

 later by Canon Greenwell, of Durham. East York- 

 shire was particularly rich in these relics of a 

 bygone age. One fine example of a tumulus or 

 place of interment had been known to exist on the 



