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BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

 Papers and records published with respect to the natural 

 history and physical features of the North of England. 



GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY, 1885. 



The Editors are indebted to Messrs. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., and 

 Alfred Harker, M.A., F.G.S., for the present instalment of the 

 Bibliography ; to both gentlemen for contributing the titles and 

 abstracts, and to the former for arranging and classifying the materials 

 thus brought together. There are a few titles cited of papers for 

 1884 which had previously escaped notice or come to hand since the 

 1884 instalment was published. 



Papers which appear in the Naturalist itself are cited but not 

 abstracted. 



Sir Frederick Abel. Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham, Derbyshire. 



Explosions in Coal Mines. [Gives list of disastrous explosions in coal mines t in 

 northern counties since 1875. Suggests safeguards against accidents, as 

 improved ventilation, better safety lamps, etc.] Journal of Society of Arts 

 and Nature, December 3rd, 1885, xxxiii, 108-112. 



S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Excursion to Idle and Thackley [description of strata (the Halifax 

 beds) at the West Yorkshire Colliery, Idle, also of a remarkable fault in 

 railway cutting between Idle and Thackley]. Trans. Leeds Geol. Assoc., 

 1885, p. 28. 



S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Excursion to Guiseley and Menston [description of glacial drift in 

 railway cutting]. Trans. Leeds Geol. Assoc., 1885, p. 27. 



S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Excursion to Wrose Bill arid district [details of section given at 

 Wrose Hill Fire Clay Works, and review of the Elland Flagstone at Idle]. 

 Trans. Leeds Geol. Assoc., 1885, pp. 29, 30. 



S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Excursion to Hawes [geology of railway journey from Leeds to 

 Hawes described. Sections of Yoredale rocks given, also explanation of cause 

 of the ravine at Hardraw and deposition of Yoredale rocks.]. Trans. Leeds 

 Geol. Assoc., 1885, pp. 30-32. 



S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Excursion to Norber [account of Silurian erratics on Mountain Lime- 

 stone, with reasons for their deposition; Conglomerates observed at base of 

 Mountain Limestone]. Trans. Leeds Geol. Assoc., 1885, pp. 32-34. 



S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Excursion to Pateley Bridge [beds at Scot Gate Ash Quarries 

 described]. Trans. Leeds Geol. Assoc., 1885, pp. 34-36. 

 S. A. Adamson. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Excursion to Barnsley [section in excavating a gasholder tank 

 minutely described : in blue clay a number of basaltic and felspathic boulders 

 found, evidently from Cumberland : Pre-historic relic of mica schist discovered 

 about 30 ft. from surface]. Trans. Leeds Geol. Assoc., 1885, pp. 42-43. 



Nov. 1886. 



