338 Eminent Living Geologists — G. W. Lainplugh. 



divisions of which, and in particular that known as the Bridlington 

 Crag,^ he devoted very careful work, and published the results in 

 a series of papers, commencing in the Geological Magazine for 

 November, lb78 (pp. 509-17), in which the position of the shell- 

 bearing beds in relation to the Boulder-clay, sands, and gravels is 

 shown. 



Besides the additions to the marine fauna made by Mr. Lamplugh 

 (and identified by Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S.), he records the 

 discovery (in 1879, op. cit., p. 393) of a freshwater deposit rich in 

 shells of Limncea peregra, suggesting envelopment and transportation 

 by the land-ice of hoih. freshwater and marine deposits with the shells 

 peculiar to each. He also read a paper in 1879 to the Yorkshire 

 Geological and Polytechnic Society " On the Glacial Beds in Filey 

 Bay" (the first of a series on kindred subjects communicated to this 

 Society extending over many years). 



It happened that the year 1881 was not only famous as the Jubilee 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, but the 

 meeting was held in York, the city in which the Association was 

 founded in 1831. The rally made by geologists, under the presidency 

 of Professor (afterwards Sir A. C.) Bamsay, was truly remarkable, 

 and the geologists of Yorkshire, amongst whom was G. W. 

 Lamplugh (then 22), attended in force and gave it their whole- 

 hearted support. Lamplugh's contribution to the splendid list of 

 papers read in Section C was " On the Bridlington and Diralington 

 Glacial Shell-beds" (Geol. Mag., 1881, pp. 535-46), with an 

 excellent section of the cliff and lists of the Mollusca by Dr. J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, of the Foraminifera by T. Bupert Jones, W. K. Parker, and 

 Dr. H. C. Sorby. The recurrence of many papers on the Bridlington 

 shell-beds is not merely due to their great importance, but to tlie 

 fact that these beds are only occasionally seen, being almost con- 

 stantly "masked" by masses of shingle and sand piled above them 

 by the wind and tides, and moreover tliey are being gradually but 

 'permanently lost to sight by the construction of additional sea-walls 

 to prevent the encroachment of the sea upon the cliffs. But for 

 Lamplugh's long residence on ^the spot, their latest history wouH 

 probably never have been written. 



Lamplugh's iirst paper read before the Geological Society of 

 London, in February, 1884, was on a recent exposure by storms of 

 the shelly patches in the Boulder-clay at Bridlington in the winter 

 of 1882-3. The mollusca, examined and determined by Dr. J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, had been increased from 67 to 101, five of the additions 

 being new to science; the Cirripedia were also determined by 

 Mr. E. T. JS'ewton and Foraminifera by Dr. Crosskey. 



This year marked a determinative step in Lamplugh's life (he 

 calls it his "wander-year"), for in it he started on a year's tour in 

 North America for the purpose of increasing and enlarging his 



^ The history of the Bridlington Crag is given in a paper by the late 

 Dr. S. P. Woodward in this journal, Vol. I, p. 49, 1864, which records details 

 of the various early investigators and a list of the shells in this deposit com- 

 pared with the Coralline Ked and Norwich Crag, the Glacial deposits, and 

 living species. 



