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3. Boulder of millstone grit, at Rainton, near Thirsk ; 2 ft. 6 in. x 
2 ft. 3 in. x1 ft. ro in.; subangular; no striz; a block of the same 
nature occurs fifteen miles west, about 150 ft. above the sea ; 
isolated, and resting on Reaper sandstone. 
BEN). HOLGATE, F.G.S., 
Regent House, Grosvenor Road, Headingley, Leeds. 
100 a Falsgrave one De Seek ... North Riding. 
Group of boulders, 0° 25’ 15” W. longitude; 54° 16’ 30” N. 
latitude. Falsgrave, near Scarborough, where Stepney Road turns 
sharply to the right at Falsgrave. One 3 ft. 8 in.x2 ft. 6 in. x2 ft. 
8 in., basalt; one 3 ft. 3 in.x1 ft. 6 in.x1 ft. 6 in., red granite. Two 
of nearly the same size of lias, and numerous others down to the 
smallest sizes. About 130 tons have been carted away for road 
metal. Generally rounded, but a few are subangular. All have 
been moved. Striations in large boulders in all directions. They 
are from all directions and different distances, and represent different 
formations, but many are igneous or metamorphic. Say 27 per 
cent. various; 12 per cent. some twenty kinds of granite and 
syenites of different colours; 4 per cent. gneiss; 12 per cent. basalts, 
various ; 8 per cent. quartzites; 2 per cent. greenstones ; 4 per cent. 
volcanic ashes; 12 per cent. mountain limestone; 1 per cent. 
millstone grit; 6 per cent. lias; 5 per cent. oolite; 5 per cent. 
pisolite ; 1 per cent. chert; 1 per cent. chalk flint. Height, 200 ft. 
above the sea, and covering an area of 150 yards x 20 yards. They 
are embedded in glacial drift, evidently slightly pervious. Some 
water must have percolated through the clay, acting chemically on 
some of those most easily thus acted upon. In some cases the iron 
has been turned brown, but there has not been a free passage 
of water through. _In levelling the road in question in no case have 
they gone more than 6 ft. deep; thus all were near the surfac 
The Secretary will always be glad to supply schidules for the 
purpose of recording observations upon erratics, or in supplying any 
information that from time to time may be require 
NOTES AND > 
lence of ita magazine, the ‘ Merchant Taylors’ teu, : of which we have secaived 
a copy of No. 5, for Ae pg containing an interesting r ya 
Lyell Reade (son of our well-known geological con butor), entitled ‘A few 
information on classification, but Pe gr it is a most interesting ak hed — 
o thei 
its and relative frequen 
N aturalist, 
