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* 49TINOGAMAX QUADRATUS \N THE CHALK 
OF YORKSHIRE. 
J. We SES THER. RGSS 
AFTER many years’ search for this belemnite, it is possible 
to record that an undoubted specimen of Actinocamax quadratus 
has at last been found in the Yorkshire Chalk. Although Dr. 
Rowe and Mr. Sherborne when collecting in Yorkshire, con- 
sidered the uppermost beds of the chalk of Flamborough Head 
to be in this zone, they were unable to find the actual name fossil, 
and on page 261 of their notes*, remark :—‘ We have yet to see 
an example of the true Actinocamax quadratus collected in this 
area, either by ourselves or by Yorkshire geologists.’ 
The specimen which now enables us to record this species 
for Yorkshire, was found by the writer in September 1909, in 
the White Hill Quarry, on the Scarborough Road, a mile north 
of Bridlington old town. Itisatypical Actinocamax quadratus, 
with the short stout guard, the strong pustulation, and the 
deep and square alv eolar cavity. Mr. Crick and Mr. Sherborne, 
who have both seen the specimen, fully confirm this opinion. 
During the summer of rg1o, the White Hill Quarry was 
again visited by the members of the Hull Geological Society, 
when Mr. G. W. B. Macturk secured a specimen of exactly the 
same type, which he kindly handed over to the writer of this note. 
OVS 
The West Riding of Yorkshire. These ‘ Little Guides’ are much more 
than any compilation, for they are the digested, reliable, and judicious 
work of Mr. Joseph E. Morris, B.A. (‘West Riding’, 569 pp., Methuen & Co., 
1g1t, 3/6). Such a flair or instinct has their author for the essential, 
the core in whatever he may be describing, that I have found his account 
of many places, Bolton demesne, Meaux, Rougemont, the Mayden Bowar, 
near Topcliffe, etc., to throw a distinct light upon the flora of the areas 
concerned ; and this without a.dropped word on the natural, or even local 
earth-history! The Guide itself is not only little in format and cost, 
easily slipped into a breast-pocket, but leaves little to be desired in other 
ways. Of course the topic where towns and not church architecture is 
involved (since tastes differ, and standpoints are not singular), may give 
occasion for contentious criticism ; but, upon the whole, these * Guides 
take a place easily First in their literary genre, with the dry-as-dust or 
ponderous rest, Nowhere! Only one non-content strikes me: lack of any 
reference under Bolton Priory or Barden to ‘the Riddings,’ a ridge farmstead 
with adjoining cottage on the scarp of the Wharfe, a half mile above the 
Abbey, the cottage “having a curious ‘bow’ window, some of it built 
around an old ‘ peel’ or round tower, which was the hawks’-eyry in the 
days of Clifford’s and the dame Cicely, wife of Wm. de Meschines, and 
who gave her name to the anise-aromatic ‘Sweet Cicely,’ grown by, and 
introduced to this reach of Wharfe, by her. The cottage buttresses and 
conceals a mural curio unique in Yorkshire. The cot garden on a slope, 
of toy dimensions, still retains the little terrace-shelf from which the 
gosses and peregrines were ‘flown.’ Perhaps, in a second edition, Mr. 
Morris might add an inset leaf. The West Riding Guide is dedicated 
“to the Memory of my Uncle, Richard Metcalfe, M.D., of Leyburn.’ Every 
peregrinating naturalist should make friends with this aid to a ‘ liberal 
education.’—F. ARNOLD LEEs. 
* Proc. Geol. Assn., Vol. XVIII., Part 4. 
Naturalist, 
