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rocks that have been definitely identified among the erratics of our East 

 Coast were from the neighbourhood of Christiania, none from other 

 localities existed ; this fortunate discovery shows that assumption to 

 have been unwarranted. 



The investigations of Mr. Stather have brought out the remarkable 

 fact that tlie chalk Belemnitellm found in the Yorkshire drift are referable 

 to a species which has never been found in the Chalk of the district. This 

 fact is cf great significance. 



Cheshire. 



Reported hy Dr. C. Ricketts, M.I)., F.G.S., per Glacialists' Association. 



Birkenhead, Price Street — 



14 small pebbles of serpentine. 



Durham. 



Reported by Dr. R. Taylor Manson. 



Bishop Auckland Park, beside a small tributary of the River Gaunless — 

 1 Shap granite (now removed to the garden of Mr. R. Nelson, J.P.). 



EtJierley, Flashes Farm — 



1 Shap granite (Mr. Nelson states that it is generally supposed to have been 

 brought from the Tees for use in a cheese-press. Another boulder on 

 the same farm is known to have been brought from Towler Hill, near 

 Barnard Castle). 



Lincolnshire. 



Reported by Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. 



Louth, Brick-pit in James Street. — A section 50 feet in depth shows 

 two distinct superposed beds of Boulder-clay ; in the lower, 20 feet, 

 besides many well striated boulders of Mountain Limestone : — 

 1 Augite-syenite (Laurvikite) ; 



1 Rhomb-porphyry. (Both of these were found actually embedded in the 

 clay.) 



Nottinghamshire. 

 Reported by Mr. H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S. 



Harworth, near Baivtry. — In the lower beds of clay at the Brickyard 

 fragments of chalk and flint occur. 



In a gravel pit between Harworth and Bawtry the stones are almost 

 exclusively Triassic quartzite pebbles, but at the base, resting on Triassic 

 sandstone, are large boulders of Magnesian Limestone containing Axinus. 



Yorkshire.^ 



Communicated by the Yorkshire Boulder Committee. 

 Reported by Rev. C. T. Pratt. 



Banks Bottoms, Nobleihorpe — 



1 Cleaved volcanic ash (probably Lake District), now removed to the 

 entrance to the Museum at Cawthorne. 



" This report will be published in extenso in the Naturalist. 



