74 bibliography: geology and palaeontology, 1887. 



E. T. Newton, P. B. Brodie, and E. Wilson. Nottinghamshire. 



On the Remains of Fishes from the Keuper of Warwick and Nottingham. 



[the specimens from near Nottingham, much broken and crushed, seem to 

 be Semionotus, and others to belong to the Palaoniscidce ; abstract in Proc. 

 Geol. Soc, May 25th, 1887 ; Geol. Mag., July, dec. iii. vol. iv. pp. 326-327]. 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xliii. pp. 537-543 and Plate xxiii. Ann. and 

 Mag. N. H., Aug. 1887, 5th Ser. xx. pp. 139-140. 



H. A. Nicholson and J. E. Mark. Cumberland. 



On the occurrence of a New Fossiliferous Horizon in the Ordovician 

 Series of the Lake-District [certain shales and mudstones exposed in 

 Drygill near Caldbeck Fells were found to contain a fauna of trilobites and 

 brachiopods, which are supposed to indicate a position about the horizon of 

 the Llandeilo Limestone or slightly higher ; these beds are regarded by the 

 authors as part of the Borrowdale Series, which has hitherto yielded no 

 fossils]. Geol. Mag., Aug. 1887, dec. iii. vol. iv. pp. 339-344. 



H. Franklin Parsons. Derbyshire. 



Waterfall on Kinderscout, Derbyshire [a general description of the Hill of 

 Kinderscout in the Peak of Derbyshire ; in the centre of the western edge is 

 a cascade about 50 ft. in height]. Nat., Oct. 1886, p. 310. 



S. R. Pattison. Yorkshire. 



The Coral Reefs of England [noticing the Mountain Limestone reefs of 

 Yorkshire (p. 422), and the Corallian rocks of the same county (p. 495)]- 

 Leisure Hour, June and July, 1887, pp. 420-423, 493-496. 



Horace Pearce. Westmorland. 



Glacial Action near Grasmere [great number and size of glacial moraines 

 near the outlet of Easdale Tarn observed]. Sci. Goss., Aug. 1886, p. 189. 



H. M. Platnauer. N.E. Yorkshire. 



On the occurrence of Strophalodus Rigauxi (Sauv.) in the Yorkshire 

 Cornbrash. Ann. Rep. Yorksh. Philosoph. Soc. for 1886, p. 36. 



J. Postlethwaite. Cumberland. 



Trilobites of the Skiddaw Slates [dividing the specimens found into 1. 

 Trilobites having the thoracic portion of the axal furrows more or less curved, 

 caudal shield doubtful or altogether absent. 2. Forms having the thoracic 

 portion of the axal furrows more or less curved, and a well-developed caudal 

 shield. 3. Those having the axal furrows straight, except the outward curve 

 near the margin of the carapace, and the rounded posterior extremity of the 

 axis, a caudal shield being present. Numerous localities given]. Trans. Cumb. 

 and Westm. Ass., part x (1884-85, pub. 1885), pp. 71-80, with plates ii. and iv. 



J. Postlethwaite. Cumberland, Cheshire. 



The Mineral Springs near Keswick [describing chalybeate spring at Woodend 



Mine, near Threlkeld, and saline springs at Brandley Mine and at Saltwell 



Park ; an analysis given of the Brandley spring]. Trans. Cumb. and 



Westm. Ass., No. xi (1885-86, pub. 1886), pp. 142-145. 



Herbert Prodham. Durham. 



Drift Coal in Durham [in making the railway from Scotswood to Benfieldside, 

 a cutting was necessary nearly opposite Gibside, and was some 60 ft. deep in 

 the deepest part ; about two-thirds of this was dry sand resting upon hard 

 boulder clay ; in the sandy portion were ' discontinuous, wedge-shaped, 

 current-bedded patches of coal 'J. Nat., April 1S85, p. 213. 



J. Radcliffe. South Lancashire. 



Quartzite Boulders and Grooves in the Roger Mine at Dukinfield [the 

 boulders vary from 166 to 4 lb. in weight, and consist of quartzose grit and 

 quartzite, resembling some of the pebbles in the Bunter conglomerate, and 

 like the quartzites of Loch Maree]. Abstr. in Proc. Geol. Soc, March 23rd, 

 1S87 ; Geol. Mag., May 1887, dec. iii. vol. iv. p. 238. 



Charles Ricketts. Cheshire. 



The Boulder-Clay of Cheshire [abstract of a paper read before the 

 Geological Society, May 27th]. Knowledge, June 13th, 1885, p. 502. 



Naturalist, 



