:m ge) TATE: THE YORKSHIRE BOULDER COMMITTEE. 
Reported by Mr. JOHN Srears, Hull. 
On England Hill farm, near Winestead, Holderness: a mountain 
limestone boulder. 4:3 x 2°3 x 17 feet, sub-angular, resting on a 
gravelly bed; under 50 feet above sea-level. Some years ago 
a larger boulder of the same colour, weighing several tons, was 
found in the same field and broken up for road-metal. ‘ 
Reported by Mr. JOHN H. PHILuips, Hon. Sec. of the Scarborough 
Philosophical Society. 
Group oF Erratic BouLpERs. 
In the garden of King’s Cliff Hospital, Scarborough, 58 boulders 
of all shapes and sizes from 4 feet 8 inches and 26 inches in 
circumference up to 11 feet 8 inches by g feet 6 inches; striations 
nearly illegible. They include four basalts, two hard limestones, and 
52 Shap Fell granites from half a hundredweight up to two tons in 
weight. 
Collected by their former owner, Mr. John Wharton, from the 
coast and highways in the immediate neighbourhood. 
The estate has recently been sold and is to be converted into 
a winter: garden ; but it is hoped this fine group of erratics will be 
transferred to the Scarborough Museum. 
Reported by Mr. Tuos. Tate, F.G.S. 
RIBBLESDALE.—Swanside Wood, east of Sawley Abbey, on the right 
ank of Swanside beck ; altitude 350 feet. 
I.—‘ Brockram,’ somewhat bleached, 14x 7 x6 inches, rounded. ~ 
May be from the Permian conglomerate of Black Burton 
(the Leck Beck brockram), which is indistinguishable from 
that of the vale of Eden. 
II.—Black limestone breccia, richly veined with calcite and 
limonite ;_ 12x 6x6 inches; very angular. Parent rock 
unknown. 
INGLETON. 
I.—Right bank of Dale Beck, a little above Phillip’s * Dyke ; 
altitude 470 feet. Helmsgill Lamprophyre, 6’ x 3/3” x 1/7"; _ 
subangular. 
II.—Right bank of Dale Beck, near the Mealbank limekiin ; alti- 
tude 4oo feet. Helmsgill Lamprophyre, 6ft. x 5ft. x 3ft. 6in. ; 
angular. 
Microscopic sections of these two boulders are described 
and figured in Proceedings of Yorkshire Geological and 
Polytechnic Society, vol. xi. p. 311, plates xiv. xv. 
“Naturalist, 
