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are continued to Lou's" Nab. The millepore ridge of rocks, at low 

 water, are seen in this bay to great advantage, but the advancing tide as 

 we passed was fast submerging them. Passing round " Lou's " Nab, we 

 quickly came upon the site of the great f^ult, which is here very per- 

 ceptible. It is a remarkable dislocation. On tl^e left of the line of fault, 

 the lower part of the Oxford clay is opposed to the bottom of the calca- 

 reous grit on the right ; whilst the Kelloway rock on the right meets the 

 carbonaceous sandstones and shales on the left. The extent of the 

 dislocation is about 140 feet. Just beyond, northwards, is one of the 

 finest sections in the kingdom of the Calcareous grit, Oxford clay, and 

 Kelloway rock ; whilst the Cornbrash is shown at the base by a dwarf 

 fringe of rocks near the line of high-water mark, with false-bedded sand- 

 stones and shales overlying the millepore bed. Owing to the advancing 

 tide, we had but a brief period left us to hammer out of the cornbrash a 

 few of its characteristic fossils. Gristhorpe Bay, with its island rock- 

 plant beds, and bold cliffs, presents a fine study for the young and enter- 

 prising geologist, for its various strata consist of vast multitudes of shells^ 

 ferns, Zamia, lycopodiacise, and thin laminse of coal, and the plant-bed 

 is full of fossils guarded by the millepore bed. Here our happy labours 

 were compelled to be terminated owing to the tide, and a drenching 

 shower of rain overtook us whilst ascending the cliffs above Cayton 

 Waterworks ; but the enchanting walk to Scarborough, with the fine bay 

 on the one hand, and the bold headland of Oliver's Mount on the other, 

 amply compensated for those little drawbacks. The imperfect specimens 

 of fossils we were able to procure — and so very speedily — were Avi- 

 cula Bradenburiensis, Grevillia aviculoides, Othea, Myacetes recurvus. 

 Ammonites convolvulus. Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke, for the Yertebrate 

 Section, said nothing could be done on account of the weather, and the 

 only birds noticed were the cormorant, blackheaded gull and various other 

 gulls, sandmartin, swift, whinchat, stonechat, redstart, lesser redpoll, 

 greenfinch, wheatear, and jay. — A vote of thanks to the chairman 

 concluded the proceedings. — W. E. C. 



Beverley Beport. — Not knowing of any previous record of the 

 occurrence of Tephrosia consonaria in Yorkshire (see Nat. VII., 206), I 

 wrote to Mr. N. F. Dobree, asking him kindly to make inquiries 

 respecting the insect named as that species at the Beverley Meeting of 

 the Union. Mr. Dobree tells me (as I suspected) that the specimen was 

 wrongly named, and was indeed a much commoner species. I have little 

 doubt, also, that Coremia munitata should be omitted from that day's 

 captures, as, even if it occurs at Beverley at all. May 29th would, I think, 

 be too early for it to be on the wing. And were not the specimens 

 recorded as Tephrosia crepuscularia really T. biundularia ? — Geo. T. 

 PoRRiTT, July, 1882. 



[Erratum. — On p. 205, vol. vii., line 6 from bottom — for dogger," 

 read ''marlstone of middle lias."] 



