TATE: THE YORKSHIRE BOULDER COMMITTEE. 299 
substantial help given by Mr. Hodsman, York, in securing and 
removing this boulder free of cost. 
They have also ventured respectfully to suggest to the Committee 
of the British Association, for the preservation of erratic blocks, that 
necessary measures be taken for preserving the Royston Boulder (48) 
by inviting the Mayor and Corporation of Barnsley to secure it for 
their Public Par 
The following reports have been accepted :— 
Reported by Mr. W. Hemtncway, Old Mill Lane, Barnsley. 
Rocks of local origin are not recorded. (Specimens, numbered 
as below, have been named by this Committee.) 
STAINCROss STaTioN.—Three miles north-east of Barnsley : railway 
cutting in boulder-clay, sands and gravels, 36 ft. thick ; 
alt. 300 ft. (For section see Geol. Mem. of Yorkshire 
Coal Fieid, plate 26. Mackintosh, Proc. Geol. & Polyt. 
Soc. Yorks., 1870, ~. 137. 
31 Grey granite, a small fragment. 
Andesitic ash, 8 x 6 x 6” angular. 
32 Vesicular lava, longest axis 6” angular. 
35 Grey felsite (rhyolite), 9 x 8 x 8” angular with striae. 
36 Grey encrinital limestone, cuneate slab, almost unworn. 
37 Lias limestone, Gryphea incurva, etc. 
38 Fine gneissose granite, small, angular, with smooth faces. 
Magnesian limestone, long axis 6” angular. 
21 Pure white quartz (from grit), small pebble. 
East Gawser CoLierRy.—Railway siding, in a bed of boulder-clay 
6 ft. thick and thinning out in every direction, except, 
perhaps, on the north-east, where it may be continuous 
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19 Porphyrite, 7 x 6 x 6” rounded. 
27 Porphyrite, small, rounded. 
Andesitic ash, long axis 14" angular. 
Andesitic breccia, 16 x 12 x 10” angular. 
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