524 K. W. Earle— 



In view of the publication of Mr. Edmonds' paper and the refusal 

 of the Geological Society to publish mine, it is doubtful if my paper 

 will ever be printed in extenso. I may perhaps, therefore, be allowed 

 to offer here a few remarks both on the area described by 

 Mr. Edmonds, and on the larger area described as a whole by me. 



In the first place I should like to congratulate Mr. Edmonds 

 on the thoroughness of his field work and on the completeness of his 

 faunal collections in a district where the chief outcrops consist of 

 gigantic unscaleable quarries, either abandoned and filled with 

 water, or rendered dangerous of approach for 5^ days in the week 

 by incessant blasting. 



The size of the area covered by my paper, and the rather abrupt 

 termination of my work in 1920, did not leave me as much time for 

 the Egremont area as I should have liked, and my faunal collection 

 is nothing like as complete as Mr. Edmonds'. I must confess, for 

 example, that though I was always on the look out for it, the 

 Girvanella band escaped my notice, which led to my placing the 

 junction between Dj and Dg rather lower than is evidently the 

 case. In the area north of Cockermouth, the Girvanella band occurs 

 immediately below a thick sandstone, undoubtedly the repre- 

 sentative of the Orebank Sandstone of the Egremont district. In 

 the latter area, however, the sandstone no longer forms a natural 

 base to D2 ; it has, in fact, transgressed across some 200 feet of the 

 limestone, till it rests only 80 feet below the Millstone Grit, just as the 

 Orton-Ashfell Sandstone transgresses across the zones in the North- 

 West Province. 



In the same way the MUlstone Grit episode enters much earlier 

 in the Egremont area, probably earlier than anywhere else in 

 England. 



Mr. Edmonds notices the absence of a true Bryozoa Bed at the 

 base of D^ ia the Egremont area. I called attention in my paper 

 to the marked contrast between this and the Cockermouth- 

 Bridekirk-Uldale district, where the band attains a greater thickness 

 than probably anywhere else in the country and has a very abundant 

 fauna. 



I find no reference in the paper, however, to the well-marked 

 Chonetes comoides band of Professor Garwood, which occurs well 

 up in Dj. This is seen at Pardshaw Crags, Scalesmoor, and ia the 

 cutting ia Yeathouse Quarry. The Chonetes comoides, which occurs 

 up to a large size, is associated with C yathophyllum murchisoni, 

 Productus hemisphericus, Dibunophyllum, and a few Cyrtina 

 septosa. This band is one of the most constant throughout the 

 whole limestone area, and can be traced at intervals all the way 

 from Penruddock via Caldbeck, Bothel, and Cockermouth to 

 Egremont. It is possible that it forms a band in Mr. Edmonds' 

 " White Beds ", as Lonsdaleia duplicata, mentioned by him as being 

 characteristic of the lower part of those beds, does occur in the 

 Chonetes comoides band. There also occurs an early form of 



