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FIELD NOTES. 



GEOLOGY. 



Shap Qranite at Kirkby Malzeard. — From information 

 gleaned at Kirkby Malzeard, near Ripon, it is evident that a 

 large boulder of Shap Granite was met with whilst carrying out 

 the village drainage scheme in 1905. The boulder was em- 

 bedded at a depth of about 10 feet in the drift, midway 

 between the Church and the Market Cross ; the drift consisting 

 of sand and small gravel. The portion exposed projected 

 3 ft. across the trench, and was roughly 3 feet in extreme 

 diameter. It was removed by blasting, and the actual length 

 of the boulder not ascertained, but as it was not seen when 

 cutting a parallel trench later, about five feet distant ; the 

 long axis cannot have measured more than six feet or so. 

 Many fragments of the granite are preserved in the locality, 

 and there is also a fine piece of Fluor-Spar taken from the 

 same trench as the boulder. Kirkby Malzeard is situated close 

 to the Western limit of the great glacier which descended from 

 the North and North-west into the Plain of York, and the 

 ridges forming its marginal moraines are well defined in the 

 vicinity, several good sections being exposed, in which immense 

 ■quantities of finely striated limestones and volcanic rocks from 

 Ihe Lake District are in evidence. — A. Leslie Armstrong, 

 Harrogate. 



Lincolnshire Red Chalk, etc., Fossils. — I am indebted 

 to Mr. C. Davies Sherborn for the identification of a collection 

 of fossils from the Red Chalk in Lincolnshire. It includes the 

 following, which, as far as I can ascertain, have not been 

 previously recorded for that strata in the county : — Nautilus 

 kunstantonensis Foord and Crick, found in the Railway Cutting, 

 near Donnington-on-Bain Station ; Oxyrhina angustidens 

 Reuss (a tooth), from the same locality; Pentacrinus agassizi 

 Hagenow, Redhill, near Goulceby ; ? Parasmilia sp., base, on a 

 T. capillata, Redhill, near Goulceby. 



I also recently sent to Mr. "W. K. Spencer, M.A.., a small 

 collection of Asteroid ossicles, and along with them one from 

 the Lower Pink Band in the Lower Chalk in Hallington Pit, 

 near Louth. This Mr. Spencer identifies as C alliderma mosaicum. 



As I have been credited with being ' the first to observe the 

 abundance and constancy ' of the occurrence of Terebratulina 

 ■ornata Roemer {=^T. gracilis Schloth) of the Geol. Surv. Mem., 

 JEast Lines., 1887, and Hill's paper on the Lower Beds of the 



Naturalist, 



