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CiRC. No. 99. 



Station) or the Pier Hotel, Witliernsca. 



Permission for the investigation of ^ ^^^^^[^^^'^^^^^ f^^^Z 

 Messrs. Walter Bailey, I . I '■ , James Reckitt, j . G. ^\ . Diclunson, J . I . , l ^ 

 Holden, Cleorge Clark, Iklward Clark, and J. B.gbn. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.-The wirole of the district for the day's investig^y 



^.'c:;^^^."Fice^.' The last-named memoir gives a Ud, account 

 of all that is known of the geology of the .hstiict. 



PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY.-Mr. Alfred lla.ker, 



M \ F G S commmiicales the following :-Exceptmg certanr superhcia deposit 



Yorkshire, and espeaally ^ f ,5^^ //^ '' 1^1 n,oraines, which forn, the IJase- 

 S^B^^r a^r-ti'l^ddr^lU^neisses, crystalline schists, and ..cuhar 

 ment t,onl( ti ^''ly ., , ; | jj, ,he local chalk and Jurassic roek>, the 



,gncousroeksof^™^^a side sue t ^ specimens from the 



Carbomtonis sual^a nd ^^^f -[^^'Lemeiit clay Is sUn at Dimlington. 

 Thele^d d^wh " 1 U-Wing patches have be,n exposed, representing por,^K>ns 

 <^" :Sf b^tom ploughed up by. the iVont. .A the N,,n. egiau ^^^^■^^^^^^:t 

 stagemthehistory^wasap^Ua rece^^ 



rece" on oPthat coming from Norway. The prepon.leranee oporkshne locks 

 amon,^ the boulders is greater than in the Basement Clay. 



geological process no^s m ,.ogre^ Z^'P^^'^'^^, '-ng estimated at 

 coast by the sea, the loss ^'^^P'^-; a"0« 1 ^^^_^ ^^^ ^^^-f^- „f 



!^S^::Se,;T; :^ r^n^^i- :::Z ii"he':?lihs are contmuaUy changing, and 

 any Sed descripJion would be of little use after a short lapse of tune. 





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