Shepptii'd : Xotcs on Snuie Specton-Clay Bclevuiitcs. 97 



the rector was outlawed. John, the chaplain of Hackness, in 

 1 31 2, knowing-ly received unlawfully hunted venison and 

 was fined £^\ 6s. 8d. And so on. Rig-ht through the volume 

 are interesting" details, valuable alike to the naturalist and 

 antiquary. ' The Royal Forests of England ' should be on 

 every naturalist's shelves. 



NOTES OIS SOME SPEETON=CLAY BELEMNITES. 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S. 

 Hull. 



Perhaps one of the best arg'uments in favour of the necessity 

 of the amateur spirit in scientific work, referred to by Mr. G. W. 

 Lamplug^h on another pag'e, is a piece of work now before us, 

 which will particularly appeal to Mr. Lamplug-h on account 

 of his former researches on the same ground. I refer to an 

 admirable paper by Mr. C. G. Danford, entitled 'Notes on the 

 B(;lemites of the Speeton Clays.'* 



The Speeton Clay were first referred to by Youngf and Bird, 

 in 1822, as the ' Upper Shale,' and from it they figured a few 

 specimens. Phillips, in his well known work on the Yorkshire 

 Coast, a few years later, gave a much more complete account of 

 the beds, with figures of fossils therefrom. In 1868-70, Prof. 

 Judd published some papers in the Quarterly Journal of the 

 Geological Society, in which he sub-divided the beds by the aid 

 of the Ammonites. But all these works were eclipsed by a 

 paper by Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, then an amateur, with a little 

 leisure time. Mr. Lamplugh carefully collected from, and 

 measured the different beds, and by the aid of the belemnites 

 they were sub-divided into more or less definite divisions. Mr. 

 Lamplugh 's ability, and the exceptional opportunities he had for 

 studying the clays, left us almost without hope of adding much 

 to our knowledge of the fauna of the Speeton Series. A few 

 years later however Mr. J. W. Stather, in the ' Transactions of 

 the Hull Geological Society,' described a section south of the 

 ravine from which he had obtained some specimens which were 



* In the 'Trans., Hull Geol. Soc. ' vol. III. part I., 1906, with 4 plates. 

 This paper may also be had separately froni Messrs. A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 

 Hull, price 1/6. 



1906 March i. 



