Field Notes, etc. 105 



(a) This was a sloping bank, fairly well shaded and bore 

 little vegetation other than R. Ficaria. Almost all the plants 

 were of small size, possessed numerous leaves, few flowers and 

 many tubers. Intermingled with these and standing up above 

 the surface of the bed like comparative giants were solitary 

 plants of much handsomer appearance. Their flowers were 

 large and brilliant ; tubers were absent. Whilst the average 

 height of the majority in the bed was about three inches, the 

 measurements of the stragglers were on the scale of the following 

 example : — 



From bottom of main internode to top 



of central flower . . . . . . 10 inches. 



Length of peduncle . . . . . . 7 



Diameter of flower . . . . . . 1*8 ,, 



Diameter of leaf . . . . . . 2*0 



In their isolation they were very striking, suggesting the 

 idea of a variety other than that of their surrounding relatives, 

 or that they had reached a more advanced stage in their life- 

 histor}?. 



(To be continued). 



MAMMALS, 



Mammalian Remains, etc., from the Holderness 

 ■Gravels. — Among some fossil bones recently obtained from 

 Kelsey Hill, received from Mr. T. Sheppard, on January 25th, 

 1917, (and returned), are the following : — 



Bison or Bos. — Probably Bison, as this has already been 

 recorded. Parts recognised — Humerus (large), metacarpal, 

 calcaneum, astragalus, tooth, horn-core, vertebrae. 



Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) .—Piece of antler tyne and piece 

 of ilium. 



Reindeer {Rangijer tavandus). — Antler, basal portion. 



Seal (Phoca vitulina ?). — Two tibiae. 



Fish Vertebra. — Probably Codfish. 



The seal and red deer are not recorded in Reid's ' Geology 



•of Holderness,' but have subsequently been recorded in The 



Naturalist (May, 1913, p. 197) and ' Geological Rambles in 



East Yorkshire ' respectively. — E. T. Newton, January 30th, 



1917. 



Mr. R. W. Goulding favours us with an interesting illustrated pamphlet 

 on ' Louth Parish Church,' being a paper read before the Louth Natura- 

 lists' Antiquarian and Literary Society recently. It enumerates many 

 interesting events in connection with the church, from which we notice 

 that in 1693, a raven built her nest at the north-west pinnacle, and that 

 in 1897, a Cormorant was seen several times on the top of the spire. It 

 was subsequently shot at Tathwell. With regard to the raven record, 

 we should assume that the chronicler meant a rook. 



1917 Mar 1. 



