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this locality. Mr. R. M. Robson reports a boulder of garneti- 

 ferous schist, between one and two tons in weight, at an elevation 

 of 142 feet, three-quarters of a mile west of Filey. 



HoLDERNESS.— In June, Dr. V. Milthers, of the Danish 

 Geological Survey, visited this country, and spent several days 

 on the East coast of Yorkshire examining the boulders. He was 

 much impressed by the great display of Scandinavian boulders 

 chiefly from the Christiania district, in South Holderness. One 

 result of his visit will probably be the identification of some further 

 Scandinavian rocks in East Yorkshire. 



South Ferriby, Lincs. — Mr. T. Sheppard, F.G.S., records an 

 exposure of the clays beneath the Red Chalk on the South Humber 

 shore at South Ferriby. In these are embedded a number of 

 Jarge cake-shaped nodules, all of which are glacially striated on 

 their upper surfaces, the striae being from east to west, parallel 

 with the old course of the Humber estuary. Close by, an exposure 

 in the solid lower chalk has recently occurred as a result of the 

 covering deposits having been removed by the changes in the 

 course of the Humber waters. This exposure reveals the pre- 

 glacial bed of the Humber estuary, and it is interesting to observe 

 that this also is striated in the same direction as the striae on the 

 cement-nodules already referred to. 



Thornholme, E. Yorks. — Reported by Mr. W. H. St. 

 Quintin. Cheese-shaped Boulder of Augite syenite, nine inches 

 in diameter, found on the drift gravel slope which runs back from 

 the Bridlington road, just east of Thornholme Village, at 120 

 feet above O.D. 



Coast Erosion. — Mr. J. J. Burton writes : — The amount of 

 erosion of the Lias chffs on the Cleveland Coast has been in- 

 considerable during the past year. Falls of small portions of 

 chff have occurred, but the heaped-up hard rock debris at the base 

 has acted generally as a breakwater against the inrush of stormy 

 sea waves. 



Fossil Flora and Fauna of tlie Carboniferous Roclcs Committee. 



Mr. H. Culpin writes : — Further sinkings in the neighbourhood 

 of Doncaster have given favourable opportunities during the 

 year for the study of the coal measures above the Barnsley seam. 

 The results, which it is hoped will soon be available for pubhcation, 

 markedly confirm the utihty of the marine bands, and the An- 

 thracomya phillipsi beds, as guides to position in the rocks gone 

 through. 



Jurassic Flora Committee.— Mr. J. J. Burton writes :— The 

 members of this committee live, in many cases, so far apart that 

 meetings have not been convenient ; but individual members 

 have been actively investigating newly found plant-beds as well 

 as the more well-known beds. In consultation with Professor 

 Seward, a definite line of procedure was adopted, viz. : — 



Naturalist, 



