358 bibliography: geology and paleontology, 1885. 



F. M. Norman. Northumberland. 

 Keport of Excursion to the Farne Islands. [States the Fame Islands are an 

 outcrop of the Great Whin Sill, with remains of sedimentary fossiliferous rocks 

 and boulder clay. Marks of glaciation were seen.] Proc. Berwickshire Nat. 

 Club, 1884, pp. 455 and 456. 



F. M. Norman. Northumberland. 

 Report of visit to Newcastle Museum. [List of mineral and fossil collections 

 contained therein.] Proc. Berwickshire Nat. Club, 1884, PP« 481-485. 



F. M. Norman. Northumberland 

 Embedded Reptiles, with special reference to the discovery of a Live Frog in 

 the Carboniferous Limestone at Scremerston, with two plates. [History given 

 of previous examples, and the present case exhaustively examined and 

 described. This frog, the modern species, Rana temporaria, of which nothing 

 is known till Post-Pliocene times, whereas the Scremerston Limestone is at 

 the base of the Carboniferous Rocks.] Proc. Berwickshire Nat. Club, 1884, 

 pp. 49I-505- 



Sir R. Owen. Derbyshire. 

 Notes on Remains of Elephas Primigenius from one of the Cresswell Bone- 

 Caves. [Gives description and figures of the teeth found by Mr. Metcalfe 

 (vide supra).] Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xli, pp. 31-34. Abstract in 

 Geol. Mag., January, Dec. iii, vol. ii, p. 44. 



J. Postlethwaite. Cumberland. 

 On the Trilobites of the Skiddaw Slates. [Records several new forms]. Trans. 

 Cumb. and Westm. Assoc., No. x, 1884-5, with four plates. 



H. Prodham. Durham. 

 Drift-Coal in Durham. Naturalist, April 1885, p. 213. 



T. Mellard Reade. Lancashire. 

 Evidence of the Action of Land-Ice at Great Crosby, Lancashire. [Abridged.] 

 [At the Mowbrey brick and tile works there occurs between the Keuper 

 Marls and the Low Level Boulder Clay a deposit 3 ft. or 4 ft. thick formed 

 from the marl, and containing large blocks of Keuper Sandstone, grooved and 

 striated. The author refers this to the action of land-ice]. Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, vol. xli, pp. 454-456. Abstract in Phil. Mag., July, vol. xx, 

 P- 73- 



T. Mellard Reade. Cheshire, Lancashire. 



The Mersey Tunnel : its Geological Aspects and Results. [The rock on the 

 Birkenhead side very hard and compact ; on the Liverpool side softer and 

 more thinly bedded. All of it evidently belongs to the division of the Bunter 

 known as the Pebble beds. The rock under the river was remarkably homo- 

 geneous throughout, and comparatively free from faults. In the actual Tunnel, 

 at some 300 yards from Liverpool side, the bottom of the pre-glacial valley 

 was intersected by the upper part of the Tunnel, the roof for about 100 yards 

 being in hard Boulder clay. Speculations on the history of the erosion of the 

 pre-glacial channel of the Mersey, also the history of the formation of the post- 

 glacial channel of the river given.] Proc. Liverpool Geol. Assoc., Part i, 

 vol. v, pp. 74-84. 



T. Mellard Reade. Lancashire. 

 Borings on the Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway. [Several 

 records of bore holes given, which are interesting as extending the knowledge 

 of the lie of the post-glacial beds in the neighbourhood.] Proc. Liverp. Geol. 

 Soc, Part i, vol. v, pp. 93-100. 



T. Mellard Reade. Lancashire. 

 On a Section across the River Douglas at Hesketh Bank. [The special interest 

 of this section is due to the fact that in constructing the foundation of a bridge 

 were discovered, about 20 ft. from the surface, some human remains, consisting 



Naturalist. 



