THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
Hew ioe bies.. DECADE: Wl. -VOL.. Vit. 
No. VI—JUNE, 1880. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
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J.—ConrrisutTions TO THE PaLmoNTOLOGY OF THE YORKSHIRE 
Oo.iTEs. 
By Witrrip H. Hupizston, M.A., F.G.S., V.P.G.A. 
Introduction. 
FF\HE Limestones of the Yorkshire Oolites long ago attracted the 
attention of collectors from the remarkable beauty of some of 
the fossils which are preserved in them. We need hardly go back 
so far as the days of Lister and his lapides Judaici, but the Scar- 
borough Catalogue, published in 1816, may arrest our attention for 
a moment. 
It professes to be a descriptive catalogue of the “minerals and 
extraneous fossils of Scarborough and its vicinity,” and was pub- 
lished by subscription. The list of subscribers is an interesting 
memorial, especially valuable to those acquainted with the neighbour- 
hood, presenting as it does a permanent record of those persons who 
took an interest some sixty-five years ago in such curious products 
ot the earth. As may be supposed, there are many names in this 
list well known in East Yorkshire, but amongst the few strangers 
we read that James Sowerby of London is debited with two copies. 
The second part of the publication is devoted to fossil conchology, 
and there are two or three plates containing some very recognizable 
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Frontispiece to the ae ts Catalogue, 
DECADE IIl.—VOL. VII.—NO. VI. 16 
