g8 S/ieppan/ : \o/i's on Some Sf>i'e/on-C/<iy Bi'lcmnites. 



new to Mr. Lamplus^h's lists. A circumstance certainly well 

 worthy of record. After that, the Speeton Clay did not appear 

 to have the attraction for g-eolo^ists that its reputation merited. 

 Rain and frost and sea played havoc with the section — large 

 landslips occurred, and when, three or four years ago, a few 

 of us \isited the section, we found a huge mess resembling 

 an enormous cauldron of sooty, soppy pudding, such as could 

 not be adequately described without some association with 

 his Satanic majesty ! It was certainly then thought that not in 

 our time would the section be 'presentable' again, and nothing 

 short of a miracle would enable anyone to add anything new 

 relating to the zones and their fossils. 



Soon after this, Mr. C. G. Danford took up his residence 



Slipped Mass o» 5peeton Clay. 



(From ' Geologic il Rambles in East Yorkshire.') 



at Reighton Hall, close by— with most beneficial results to 



geological science -and to the Hull Museum! As a result ot 



almost daily visits to the section, combined with a perseverance 



and patience and enthusiasm which did one good to witness, 



Mr, Danford has not only been able to make order out of muddle 



and puddle, but he has been able to demonstrate that the zones 



are by no means so sharply defined, and the range of certain 



belemnites is by no means so restricted as was previously 



supposed. He has also added considerably to what was known 



of the palaeontology of the beds. Some of the belemnites 



he has found were little suspected though they arc now known 



to occur in some numbers, and several are of by no means 



small size. It is quite probable that four or iixt- aie new tt) 



science. Mr. Danford's acfiuaintance with fori'ign literature on 



Natur.ilist. 



