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FIELD NOTES. 



GEOLOGY. 



Cornbrash Fossils from North Kast Yorkshire. —Visitinir 



one day last \ear the quan-}' on Sitamer Road, Scarboroui^h, 1 

 found a small tooth in the Cornbrash shales. On subniittulii' it 

 to Dr. A. S. Woodward, he kindly informed me he thoui^ht 

 it belong'ed to the Pycnodont Mcs/nnis. This is a new record 

 for the Cornbrash of Yorkshire. Also in the Cornbrash of 

 Cayton I5ay 1 found a tooth oi Lcpidotiis. In the I)uff shales on 

 the top of the Cornbrash rock I found a Belemnite in matrix 

 of Cornbrash shale. It mea.sures 50 millimetres from the tip to 

 the alveolus and 7 millimetres in diameter. The Rev. J. F. 

 Blake, M.A., F.G.S., in the 1905 " Faheontoi^'raphical Society's 

 Monoi4raph," mentions only one species of Belemnite, viz., 

 B. ri'tiivivits of which there are only four specimens, two in the 

 Sedi^wick Museum, and two in ^'ork Museum, all from the 

 Cornbrash shales of Cayton Bay. The Belemnite 1 found there 

 is indeed like those figured in the above, but only about half the 

 diameter. 11. C. I)k.\ke, Hull, 13th January igo6. 



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ARTHROPODS. 



Trichoniscus roseus near Liverpool. — While on a visit to 

 The Priory, Grassendale, near Li\erpool, I was fortunate enoug-h 

 to turn up a large colony of the little Rosy Woodlouse in the old 

 garden of The Friory. M}' host's boys, Masters Jim and Fric 

 Pinion, had gone with me to assist in a snail hunt, and on 

 turning over a large flat stone the latter disturbed several 

 species of Woodlice, including numbers of tlie above, the 

 species having only in recent )ears been found in Ireland, 

 very local in all stations, excessively rare in some, though \ery 

 abundant at others. I started a thorough search in likely 

 places all round Thi; Priorv to see how it might occin- in 

 England. We did not find it outside the garden, but there it 

 was most abimdant, especially about cinders in one heating pit, 

 very bright in colour, and as large almost as the best Bushy 

 Park", Dublin, specimens.* We ha\ e about nine Irish records 

 now, from Dublin, Kerry, Finu-rick, Down, and Antrim. I was 

 fortunate enough to find it in the \ery ctntii> of the latter 

 County last summii'. R. Wici.cii. Belfast. 



* //is// N(ihini/is/, Nov. U)<)^, p. jOo. 



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