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In conclusion I have to express the hope of the Com- 

 mittee that all those who have previously assisted us will 

 continue to give us their help, and that others may be induced to 

 join in this work. We feel sure that there are many workers in- 

 terested in the study of the Coal Floraof Yorkshire with whom the 

 Committee have not yet been in communication, and who may 

 have specimens in their possession which the Committee would 

 be glad to have the opportunity of examining. They therefore 

 appeal to all such to communicate with them *, also to give 

 notice of any opportunities for collecting fossil plants which may 

 come to their knowledge, such as the sinking of pits or any 

 other operations which may offer a favourable opportunity for 

 investigating the Fossil Flora of Yorkshire. , 



Note on the Rocks passed through while 

 widening the Railway at Brightside Station, about 

 two miles East of Sheffield. 



In a paper by Mr. C. Bradshaw, F.G.S., describing some 

 examples of Ripple Marked Sandstones at Grimesthorpe 

 Chemical Works t, Brightside, the horizon is given as * one 

 of the beds occurring above what is known as the Parkgate 

 Rock.' 



These rocks are on the same Iwrizon as those from which 

 the Fossil Plants were collected, but they are a considerable 

 distance, about 200 yards, above the Parkgate Rock. Mr. 



Hemingway, who has studied sections of the district, has 

 determined the beds from which the fossil plants were collected 



as ' Rock below Ilaiirh Moor CoaU which is locallv known as 



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the Brightside Rock. The position of these beds is marked 

 with an "^ in the appended section. 



Section of Strata at Rockingham Colliery, Bird- 

 well, near Barnsley, Yorkshire — (From the Transactions 

 of the Midland Institute of Mining, etc., Engineers). 



* Those wlio hiive specimens in their possession would oblige by communicating with 

 Mr. R. Kidston, 24, Victoria Place, Stirling, who has undertaken the examination 

 of the fossil plants on behalf of the Fossil Flora Committee. 



t 'The Naturalist,' Oct., 1896, p. 319. 



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Geol. Trans. Y.N.U., 1895 (pub. Feb. 1898). 



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