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THE YORKSHIRE BOULDER COMMITTEE 
AND ITS FIFTH YEAR’S WORK. 
THOMAS TATE, F.G.S., 
Leeds; Honorary Secretary to the Committee, 
Durinc the two years that have elapsed since the lamented decease 
of Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., the work of this Committee has been 
successfully prosecuted, especially in the North and East Ridings. 
In the autumn of last year, the present writer was commissioned 
to make a collection of such Lake Country rocks as, by the 
possession of individual characteristics, are capable of prompt 
identification. Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., has also contributed an 
important series of rocks from the same district, very carefully 
labelled, the localities having been affixed at the time they were 
gathered. This collection of parent rocks will shortly be accessibie 
for the definite recognition and determination of boulders by 
comparison therewith. 
As many of the more remarkable boulders have now been 
recorded, the Committee are desirous of obtaining systematised 
information upon the erratics of particular districts in Yorkshire, and 
will, in the course of next year, endeavour to obtain reports of 
a more connected description from local investigators. 
They will gratefully accept help in this new departure from 
willing workers, if they will kindly communicate with the Honorary 
Secretary (Thomas Tate, F.G.S., 5, Eldon Mount, Leeds), who will 
gladly give any further information. 
Appended are the reports as presented to the Boulder Committee 
of the British Association by the late Honorary Secretary, Mr. S. 
Chadwick, F.G.S., Malton. 
SouUTHBURN, ParisH oF KirKBURN.—In the township of South- 
burn, parish of Kirkburn, on the estate of Mr. J. Walker, about a mile 
S.E. of Southburn Church, a large number of boulders have been 
moved to their present position. There are no striations visible. 
There are specimens of whinstone, mountain limestone, red granite, 
ete., etc., in the yard, among heaps of stones; most of them are 
from the North. The greater proportion are whinstone; they are 
about 100 ft. above sea-level. The boulders have been collected 
from the adjoining land and used for paving the yards. 
SoutHBuRN.—In the township of Southburn, parish of Kirkburn, 
about a mile S.E. of Southburn Church, in a stackyard occupied 
by A. Foster, Esq., is a boulder. It is 32 in. x 22 x 19, lying close 
to the roadside. It is subangular, nearly black, with rough granules 
May 1892. 
