468° Notices of Memoirs— Glacial Gravels of Holderness. 
localities, has shown the necessity of a re-investigation of the value of 
the characters upon which certain genera have been founded—e.g., the 
presence of a septum in Orthotetids, the existence of original fringes in 
Athyrids, the septation of Zaphrentids, etc. 
I am also engaged upon the study of the types of Carboniferous 
Brachiopods preserved in the British Museum, and in this task 
Mr. 8. 8. Buckman has very kindly placed his long experience at my 
service. 
I have also to acknowledge the great help which I have received 
from Mr. R. G. Carruthers in studying the Zaphrentids, and from many 
fellow-geologists who have sent me material for examination, and thus 
allowed me to keep in touch with the progress of research outside the 
areas in which I have myself worked. 
So much remains to be done that I feel justified in asking for the 
continuance of this Committee for yet another year. 
IX.—Nore on a New Segcrion IN THE GLACIAL GRAVELS OF 
Horperness. By T. Suuprarp, F.G.S., and J. W. Sraruer, F.G.S.! 
J\HE North-Eastern Railway Company has recently been making 
some extensive excavations in a hill situated between the well- 
known Kelsey Hill and Burstwich Gravel-pits in Central Holderness. 
At the ptesent time the section exposed is probably the finest of its 
kind in the country. The cutting is made through the heart of the 
hill, and the exposed section is 1,300 feet long and 45 feet high in the 
centre, from which the section gradually slopes. The sides of the hill 
are flanked by Boulder-clay, and irregular masses also occur at 
intervals in the gravel. There are two types of Boulder-clay visible, 
the upper or Hessle Clay, containing a preponderance of Cheviot rocks, 
and the purple or middle Boulder - clay with its Carboniferous 
limestones and basalts. The gravels are somewhat similar to those 
described by Mr. Clement Reid at Kelsey Hill as Interglacial, but the 
present authors consider them to be merely part of the terminal 
moraine of the North Sea ice-sheet. In addition to the far-travelled 
boulders, a lengthy list of marine shells, mostly of an Arctic type, has 
been compiled, and the species Cyrena (Corbicula) fluminalis, a fresh- 
water form, also abounds. An interesting collection of mammalian 
remains has been secured, and includes bones of Elephas primagenius, 
Rhinoceros, Walrus, Red Deer, Bison priscus, Horse, and Bos. Some 
of these bear evidence of having been gnawed by the Hyena. It is 
thought that the shells and mammalian remains have been caught up, 
by the moving ice mass, and in this way incorporated in the moraine. 
X.—On a Marine Peat From tHe Union Dock, Liverproont.’ By 
J. Lomas, A.R.C.S., F.G.S8. 
URING excavations in the Union Dock on the Mersey Docks and 
Harbour Board Estate in the South End of Liverpool a very 
remarkable peat band was discovered. Reckoning downwards from 
a datum-line 3 feet above Old Dock Sill a section showed :— 
1 Read before Section C (Geology), British Association, Leicester, 1907. 
