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Black flint. 

 Red chalk. 

 White chalk. 



Belemnites lanceolata. 

 The last-named fossil is interesting, as it occurs in fair abundance 

 in the Boulder-clay of East Yorkshire, but so far has not been 

 recorded from the Yorkshire chalk.* 



The chalk-pit at ' Melton Bottoms ' was next visited, and 

 though the section is of no great size, it is of much importance, 

 inasmuch as it exposes a section in the lower part of the Middle 



The 'Black Band' (Belemnitella plena zone) in Melton Bottoms Chalk-Pit. 



From a Photograph taken during- the Excursion by W. S. Parrish. 



Chalk (Bwceramns mytiloides zone); the 'Black band' or 

 Belemnitella plena zone, and the upper part of the Lower Chalk. 

 A few Inocerami and other fossils were secured from the chalk, 

 but the attention of the party was principally directed to the 

 dark shales of the B. plena bed. Numerous fish scales, a fine 

 fish tooth (probably Lamna), Rhy 71c hone I la, Terebratula, etc., 

 were found, but not the characteristic Belemnite for which so 

 much search has been made in the Yorkshire chalk ! The 



*See 'The Naturalist,' January 1899, p. 13. 

 1901 July 2. 



