THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
Wo. II.—AUGUST 1864. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
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I. REMARKS ON THE BRIDLINGTON CRAG, WiTH A List oF ITS 
Fossit SHELLS. 
By 8. P. Woopwarp, F.G.S., A.L.S. 
Pu earliest, and almost the only published, notice of the 
‘ Bridlington Crag’ is contained in a single page of 
Loudon’s ‘ Magazine of Natural History’ for 1835, vol. viii. 
p- 355, entitled ‘ A Short Account of an Interesting Deposit 
of Fossil Shells at Burlington Quay, by Mr. William Bean.’ 
Writing from Scarbro’ on March 30th, Mr. Bean states that 
ten days previously he had made a geological excursion to 
‘ Burlington Quay,’ when Mr. Walter Wilson, an intelligent 
lapidary of that place, directed his attention to a deposit of 
fragile and broken shells, which the late high tides had exposed 
on the north side of the harbour, and near the pleasure-ground 
called the Esplanade. On arriving at the spot, he found a 
heterogeneous mass, only a few yards long, and as many high, 
composed of sand, clay, marine shells, and pebbles of every 
description, chalk and flint beg most abundant. The colour 
and appearance of this shelly bed resembled London Clay, but 
the fossils had the character of those found in the Crag forma- 
tion. It would be necessary to collect a greater number of 
species than he had then obtained, and to exercise much caution 
before the geological position of the bed could be truly deter- 
mined ; iat of nie much he was certain, that the shells were 
coeval "with, if not of higher antiquity than the Crag. More 
than half of them could not be referred to any existing species. 
The writer concluded by mentioning that he had alr eady made 
a second visit to the place, in company with Dr. Murray, and 
reaped an abundant. harvest. me proposed shortly to publish 
VOL. I.—NO. II. 
