BIBLIOGRAPHY: GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY, 1 885. 357 



brough, and to the ' breccia-gashes ' of the Durhairi coast, which are 

 regarded as of cognate origin]. Geol. Mag., December, Dec. iii, vol. ii, pp. 

 513-515. [A paper read before the Geological Section (C) of the British 

 Association, Aberdeen, September 1885]. Abstract also in Nature, October 

 8th, vol. xxxii, p. 559. 



J. Leitch. Cumberland. 

 Notes on the Geological Formation and Fossils of the Silloth New Dock. 



[Detailed description of the strata met with mentioned in T. V. Holmes' note, 

 with full account of the Mammalian remains found in the gravel]. Trans. 

 Cumb. and West. Assoc., 1883-4, pp. 169-174, and plate [of remains of Bos 

 primigenius\ 



Percy Lund. Yorkshire. 

 Calcareous Jottings. [Brief description of Cracoe near Skipton, its scenery and 

 geology]. Nat. World, January 1885, ii, 8-10. 



M. Luceyt. Lancashire. 

 Memoire sur le bassin houiller du Lancashire. Annales des Mines, ser. 8, torn, 

 v, ie Hvr. de 1884, p. 5. 



D. Mackintosh. Cheshire. 

 Traces of an Inter-glacial Land-surface at Crewe. [Short account of good 

 sections of book or leaf clay at Crewe Railway Station, which graduated with- 

 in a vertical extent of about a foot, into a very .typical and undisturbed 

 Upper Boulder Clay. Mr. Siddall states this leaf clay is the finest he has yet 

 examined, finding in it a shallow or brackish water species of Foraminifera — 

 viz., Polystomella striatopunctata\ Proc. Chester Soc. Nat. Sci., No. 3, 

 1885, pp. 50-51. 



A. T. Metcalfe. Derbyshire. 

 On the Discovery: in one of the Bone-Caves of Cresswell Crags of a portion of 

 the Upper Jaw of Elephas primigenius, containing, in situ, the first and 

 second milk-molars (right-side). [Found in red sand at the entrance to the 

 Pin-hole Cave : described by Sir Richard Owen.] [Abridged.] Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, vol. xli, p. 30. Abstract in Geol. Mag., January 1885, Dec. iii, 

 vol. ii, p. 44. 



L. C. Miall. Yorkshire. 

 On a Megalichthys from the Yorkshire Coal-field. Naturalist, January 1885, 

 pp. 121-124 and pi. i. 



H. Miller. Cumberland and North of England generally. 



On Fluxion Structure in Till. [See Bibliography for 1884, in Nat., 1885, 

 p. 400]. Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1884 (Montreal), pp. 720-721. 



J. R. Mortimer. Yorkshire. 

 On the origin of the Chalk Dales of Yorkshire with sections [Cannot accept 

 the erosion theory as sufficient to account for them ; states they are due 

 originally to fractures in the crust, their present rounded outlines the result of 

 subsequent denudation.] Proc. Yorks. Geol. and Pol. Soc, 1885, pp. 29-42. 



G. H. Morton. Lancashire. 

 On the Microscopic Character of the Triassic Sandstones of the country round 

 Liverpool [Review of former researches on this subject — 26 specimens of 

 Sandstones (localities named) microscopically described. Concludes that the 

 quartz and other minerals forming these sandstones were derived from two or 

 three different sources, chemical changes having also occurred since their 

 deposition]. Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc, part I, vol. v, pp. 52-74. 



F. M. Norman. Northumberland. 

 Report of Excursion to Pallinsburn. [Account of the ' Bradford Kaims ' near 

 Locker Station. One of those remarkable ridges known as ' Eskers.' These 

 are composed of rolled shingle from Silurian Rocks.] Proc. Berwickshire 

 Nat. Club, 1884, pp. 440-442. 



Dec. 1886. 



