128 bibliography: geology and paleontology, 1888. 



D. Emulrtox. Durham and York N.W. 



A Catalogue of the Place-names in Teesdale [with many references to 

 the physical features]. Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumb. , Durham, and Newc- 

 on-Tyne, vol. ix. (1888), pp. 1-223. 



L. Fletcher. Yorkshire. 



An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites [with a list of those in the 



British Museum collection ; includes the aerolites which fell at Wold Cottage, 



Thwing, in 1795 (pp. 22, 73), and at Pennyman's Siding, Middlesbrough, in 



1881 (pp. 26, 80, 85)]. 92 pp., 8vo., London, 1888. 



C. Fox-Strangways and G. W. Lamplugh. Yorkshire. 



La Geologie du I'Est du Yorkshire [prepared for the excursion of the 

 London Geological Congress ; the former author gives an account of the 

 Jurassic rocks of East Yorkshire ; the latter a description of the Cretaceous 

 and Glacial deposits near Bridlington ; there are also a bibliography and a 

 coloured map]. Congres Geologique International, 41^ Session, Explications 

 des Excursions, pp. 131-175. 



W. Garnett. Durham. 



Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the Observations 



of Earth-tremors . . . [giving record of tremors observed at Marsden, and 



pointing out their probable connection with earth-quakes in various parts of 



the globe]. Trans. North of Eng. Inst. Mining and Mech. Eng. , xxxvii. 55-57. 



S. Gasking. Lancashire. 



Report of Field Meeting at St. Helens [Cowley Hill Quarry and Middle- 

 hurst's Quarry in the Lower Coal Measures visited, and in the Middle Coal 

 Measures, Doulton's Delph, were Stigmaria and Dadoxylon were seen in situ]. 

 Trans. Liverp. Geol. Assoc, 1886-7, vol. vii. p. 55. 

 S. Gasking. Lancashire. 



Report of Field Meeting at St. Helens [recording numerous Coal-Measure 

 plants at an excavation at Cropper's Hill known as Doulton's Delph]. Proc. 

 Liverp. Geol. Soc. , vol. v. 1888, p. 391. 



A. Geikie. North of England. 



The History of Volcanic Action during the Tertiary Period in the 

 British Isles [many of the great dykes of basic rocks in the North of 

 England are held by the author to have been the channels of extensive fissure 

 eruptions in Tertiary times ; the basaltic lavas have since been removed by 

 denudation, except in Antrim and the Inner Hebrides ; the Cleveland Dyke 

 runs from near Whitby to near Carlisle (no miles), and perhaps 80 miles 

 farther, into Ayrshire (pp. 49, 50)]. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. , vol. xxxv. 

 pp. 21-184, with plates i. and ii. (1888). 



Isaac E. George. Lancashire and Cheshire. 



Wind Erosion [or .-Eolian action stated to be one of the potent forces of 



denudation ; the structure of sand grains described and their connection with 



the origin of some of the Triassic sandstones alluded to]. Trans. Liverp, 



Geol. Assoc, 1886-7, vol. vii. pp. 36-39. 



I. E. George. Derbyshire. 



Bank Holiday Trip to Castleton [Windy Knoll Quarry visited, and speci- 

 mens of elaterite obtained ; the gorge of the Winnatts traversed, and its 

 origin suggested, the Cave Dale basalt thought to be intrusive, in one place 

 developing a rude columnar structure vertically]. Trans. Liverp. Geol. 

 Assoc, vii. 1886-7, 79-81. 

 I. E. G[eorge]. Derbyshire. 



A Remarkable Valley [the origin of Cave Dale considered ; a splendid 

 example of denudation]. Trans. Liverp. Geol. Assoc, 1886-7, vii. 82-83. 



W. Hodgson Gill. Yorkshire. 



[Report upon Boulders at Filey and Hunmanby ; details given of two 

 boulders at Filey and one at Hunmanby]. Nat., Nov. 1888, pp. 346,347. 



Naturalist, 



