122 bibliography: geology and paleontology, 1 88b. 



S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 



The Yorkshire Boulder Committee and its First Year's Work [a sketch 



of the origin and history of the Committee, followed by details of first year's 



work, comprising seven reports and embracing boulders or groups of 



boulders in fifteen different localities]. Nat., Jan. 1888, pp. 17-24. 



S. A. Adamson. York S.W. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Hatfield Chace [21st Sep., 1887; 

 the drains and dykes of Hatfield Chace noted, and an account of 'warping' 

 given ; also section of gravel-i)it near Lindholme, with varieties of rock com- 

 posing the gravel ; two erratic blocks at Lindholme Hall visited]. Nat., 

 March 1888, pp. 87-88. 



S. A. Adamson. York N.W. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in Lower Wensleydale [at Leyburn, 

 2ist May, 1S88 ; section at the Keld Head Lead Mines given, the 'Lady 

 Algitha' Cave visited and briefly described; also the 'Black Flags' Quarry 

 and the Harmby Limestone Quarries ; glaciated surface of limestone in the 

 Leyburn Station-yard noted]. Nat., June 1888, pp. 173-177; Trans. Leeds 

 Geol. Assoc, 1888, Part ix., pp. 211 -21 2. 



S. A. Adamson. York S.W. 



Yorkshire and Lancashire Naturalists at Saddleworth [June i6th, 1888; 

 route from Diggle Station over Harrop Edge into Castleshaw \"alley, and its 

 physical geology described ; Millstone Edge ascended to inspect the Cudworth 

 Quarries of Kinderscout Grit ; section from Pule Hill to this point quoted, 

 giving beds from Rough Rock to Kinderscout Grit ; Mr. Watts' specimens 

 taken from erratic blocks upon the drainage area of the Oldham Waterworks 

 visited and examined ; section at Lower Castleshaw excavated to make the 

 puddle trench given; a Trap erratic noted and measured]. Nat., July 1888, 

 pp. 214-216 ; Trans. Leeds Geol. Assoc, 1888, Part iv. pp. 215-219. 



[S. A.] Adamson. York N.E. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Robin Hood's Bay [i6th July, 1888 : 

 the Crag Hall (^Juarry at the Peak visited ; section — the Lower Estuarine 

 shales and sandstones resting upon the Dogger series, which again rest upon the 

 alum shales or 'Communis' beds of the Upper Lias— the ' Striatulus' beds 

 are wanting in this quarry.] Nat., Aug. 1888, pp. 240-242; Trans. Leeds 

 Geol. Assoc. 1888, Part iv. pp. 224-226. 



S. A. Adamson. York W. 



Calverley Wood Quarries, Leeds [Sections of Rough Rock in these (pmrries 

 described; faults and slight contortions of strata noted]. Nat., Sept. 1888, 

 p. 276; Trans. Leeds. Geol. Assoc. 1888. Part iv. pp. 227-228. 



[S. A. Adamson]. York E. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Market Weighton [6ih Aug., 18S8; 

 on the Peverley line a section of the zone of Ainvionites aiigiilatus. Lower 

 Lias, examined ; on the new railway from Market Weighton to Driffield 

 a magnificent section in the Middle Chalk traversed and described ; outcrops 

 of the Lower Lias in Londesborough Park noted]. Nat., Sep. 1888, 

 pp. 280-282 ; Trans. Leeds Geol. .Assoc 188S, Part iv. pp. 227-230. 



S. A. Adamson. York W. 

 Glacier Work in Airedale [a quarry in the Rough Rock at Greengates, 

 Apperley Rock visited ; the rock is capped by about six feet of very stiff and 

 tough yellow Boulder Clay, full of rounded ami sub-angular blocks of gannister 

 and other local sandstones, with fragments of coal and shale ; the bared surface 

 of the Rough Rock was polished and engraved with well defined strix and 

 groovings running N.W. and S.E. ; the quarry is about 300 ft. above sea- 

 level, and at present is the furthest point down the Aire Valley where such an 

 observation has been noted and recorded]. Nat.. Oct. 1888, p. 297 ; Trans. 

 Leeds Geol. Assoc. 1888, Part iv. pp. 230 231. 



Naturalist, 



