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southward along' the hollow between it and the hilly land, 

 which, in time, they filled ag'ain to a somewhat higher level 

 than before, the inosculation of the upper and lower Purple 

 boulder-clays with the stratified drifts marking- the gradual 

 stages in this process. The magnificent cliff-sections of the 

 Yorkshire coast north of Flamborough reveal the continuous 

 character of this glaciation, and there is no room anywhere 

 to wedge an interglacial period into these sections. South of 

 Flamborough, the interval between the withdrawal of the one 

 mass and the advance of the other was longer, because the 

 passage of the new invader to the eastward of the Oolitic hills 

 was only gradually effected ; and consequently it is in the 

 interior of the Holderness recess that we find the greatest 

 development of the stratified drifts. To imagine, with the inter- 

 glacialists, that the North Sea Basin was emptied of its ice-sheet, 

 and was then filled again just far enough to influence the flow 

 of the local ice, without extraneous re-invasion of our coast, 

 seems to me an unwarranted sacrifice of the evidence to the 

 idea. 



(To be continued.) 



It is gTatif3'ino- to find that a recent issue of ' Progressing- Advertising- 

 and Outdoor Pubiicity ' cordially ag-rees with the recent action of Yorkshire 

 Naturalists in reg-ard to the advertisements on Flamborough Head. The 

 paper quotes in full the letter written to the press by the Hon. Secretary 

 of the Yorkshire Union, and adds : ' The members of the Yorkshire Natu- 

 ralists' Union are naturally indignant at the action of certain firms in turning 

 the rugged cliffs of Flamborough Head into advertising stations. It will be 

 remembered that when an American firm " collared " the White Cliffs of Old 

 England at Dover to advertise a breakfast food, such an outer}' was raised 

 that the bold, bad advertiser was compelled to remove the ad. We hope 

 that the result will be the same at Flamborough. The legitimate bill-poster 

 is as averse to despoiling scenery as anyone.' 



According to the Yorkshire Post of August 7th, the scientific resurrec- 

 tionists had a field-day in Section H, where the anthropologists gathered in 

 great force to hear Miss Nina Layard and Mr. T. Sheppard describe the 

 contents of pre-historic graves that have been opened in Ipswich and in 

 South Cave. The family vaults of these Anglo-Saxons have been ruthlessly 

 rifled of brooches, bracelets, buckles, and pins of great interest and, in some 

 cases, of singular beauty. Happily, the period is too far distant to provoke 

 the retaliation of outraged descendants. The Hull curator was mightily 

 proud of having discovered a number of vases which the ubiquitous Canon 

 Greenwell and Mr. J. R. Mortimer had missed. An exhibition of Roman 

 and other remains found in North Lincolnshire whetted the curiosity of 

 several well-known archaeologists. Such a find is extraordinary at this 

 time of day, and Mr. Sheppard quietly informed his audience that he did 

 not think it ' necessary ' to state the precise locality. He was commended 

 by Professor W. Ridgevvay for his wholesale reticence, 'especially,' he slily 

 added, ' with Sir John Evans on the platform.' As the revelation was not 

 made, a stampede of enthusiastic archaeologists was avoided. 



1906 September i. 



