ON Erratic blocks of the British isles. 285 



Derbyshire. 



Ueportedhy 3. Lomas, Et^q., A.R.C.S., F.G.S., Broadhurst Edge, near 

 Jordan Arms, Neio Mills. 930/eet O.D. 



Andesitic ash, 14 inches in diameter. 



Many striated fragments of fine micaceous grit. 



Ehyolite (from Upper Barrowdale Series). 



Buttermere granophyre (common). 



Coarse millstone grit, 2 feet diameter. 



Porphyritic felsite. 



Triassic quartzite pebbles. 



Lancashire. 

 Reported hy J. Lomas, Esq., A.R.C.S., F.G.S. 



Liverpool. — At Sandon Graving Dock. In boulder clay 17 feet 

 thick. 



Diorite, 3 ft. by 2 ft. 6 ih. by 1 ft. 6 in. Axis nearly N. and S. Well scratched 

 and exhibiting a well developed sole. It lies in situ. 5 feet below Old 

 Dock Sill. 



Diorite, 2 ft. 10 in. by 2 ft. by 1 ft. 8 in. Axis N. 5° E. 



Andesitic agglomerate, 1 ft. by 1 ft. by 9 in. ; IG feet below O.D.S. 



Limestone, 1 ft. in diameter. 



Keuper marl. Various small pieces. 



Gypsum abundant. 



Lincolnshire. 

 Reported by Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe Peacock. 

 Cadeney 3fanor House. — Boulders found in sinking a well. 



Coarse augen gneiss in dark boulder clay at 18 feet. 



Grey limestone with brown ferruginous oolitic grains and shell of a Lima ; 



not L. ffit/a/Uea or L. lasviascula, though belonging to the same group. 



? Neocomian or Lias. 

 Dolerite; Limestone probably L. Lias; grey felspathic sandstone; dark 



grey shale ; red chalk. 



Repioried by Messrs. Paul Davis and J. W. Stather, F.G.S. (Hull 

 Geological Society), per Yorkshire Boulder Committee. 



Cleethorpes. — Three large clay pits near the railway station show 

 Boulder Clay 30 to 40 feet thick. The boulders, many hundreds of which 

 are visible, are of the usual East Yorkshire types, but of smaller average 

 size. Among those noted were rhomb-porphyry ; eheolite-syenite ; 

 Cheviot porphyrites ; greywacke sandstone ; hypersthene-dolerite of 

 Eycott Hill ; grey, black, pink, and green-coated flints. 



Yorkshire. 



Reported hy the Yorkshire Boulder Committee (J. H. HoWARTH, 



F.G.S., Secretary). 



By G. A. AuDEN, Esq. 

 Dringhouses, York. — 



Carboniferous sandstone, two larga boulders, one weighing 3-4 tons, obscurely 

 striated. ^ 



