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coast I have mentioned, and a short account of the fossils which they contain, 

 it would, to onr young society, be a very great favour and a very great boon ; 

 and if you could recommend to us some cheap geological guide to that district, 

 every one of us would be greatly obliged to you. — Yours truly, A -Young 

 Geologist, Huddersfield. 



The coast of Yorkshire is full of geological interest ; and, indeed, supplies 

 typical sections of the oolites, and types of the oolitic fossils, which, though 

 they bear a close relationship to those of the south-west of England, have their 

 special characteristics. Prof. Phillips's work on Yorkshire (Illustrations of 

 the Geology of Yorkshire, 2 vols., 4to) is the text -book for geologists visiting 

 that coast. It contains a map, sections, and several plates of fossils. It was 

 first published in 1S29 ; and there was a new edition two or three years since. 

 A larger and far better geological map of Yorkshire was published by Prof. 

 Phillips in 1853, and can be got of Monkhouse, York ; this must be the 

 tourist's pocket-companion. Another work by the same author gives much 

 information of the same country, namely, " The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea- 

 coast of Yorkshire," 1S53; it is well illustrated. 



In 1822, Messrs. Young and Bird published "A Geological Survey of the 

 Yorkshire Coast" (Ito, "Whitby), and this is still referred to for the sake of the 

 figures and fossils in it, and other information. 



In the Journal of the Geological Society of London (vol. xv., p. 4, plates 

 1, 2, 3), Mr. Leckenby gave an account and figures of the fossils of the Kello- 

 way Rock of Yorkshire ; and in the 15th vol. of the same Journal (p. 1, &c), 

 Dr. T. Wright compared the oolites of Gloucestershire with those of York- 

 shire, and gave several sections, lists of fossils, and much information, with 

 references to other writers on the same subject. 



The east coast of Yorkshire consists chiefly of oolitic and cretaceous 

 strata, with a large quantity of boulder-clay on its southern portion, just north 

 of the Humber. On account of the richness of its fossils and the good deve- 

 lopment of its beds, the oolitic strata of Yorkshire have been regarded as type 

 sections for many years. 



The northern portion of the Yorkshire coast consists, for a few miles south 

 of the Tees, of New Red Sandstone. This is soon covered up by the Lias, 

 rich with iron-ore and full of fossils. The Great or Lower Oolite covers the 

 Lias, and, together with it, is to be seen in the coast-sections along by Whitby 

 to Robin Hood's Bay. The Oolite continues south of this along by Scar- 

 borough, showing its different stages ; and the Middle Oolite then comes on, 

 and in its turn is, at Filey Bav, covered up bv the Kimmeridge Clay (of the 

 Upper Oolite). The Speeton Clay, the Red Chalk, and the White Chalk, can 

 then be seen in succession ; and for an account of these we refer our corre- 

 spondent to the " Geologist," (vol. vii., p. 262, &c), where the Rev. Mr. 

 Wiltshire has given a detailed account, more especially of the Red Chalk and 

 the Speeton Clay of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk. The Tertiary Crag 

 of Bridlington, and the Boulder-clay of Holderness, are other objects of 

 interest to the geologist, but are not so easily studied, perhaps, by the tourist 

 as are the Oolitic and Liassic strata of Whitby, Scarborough, and their 

 respective neighbourhoods. 



New Trilobites. — Sir, — In the last month's number of the " Geologist," 

 Mr. Salter accuses me of publishing several of his MS. names of new species 

 of trilobites, which had not been described. I was not aware that they were 

 undescribed, and that the names were not published, or most certainly I should 

 not have drawn attention to them in the mamier I did, and for which I offer 

 him apology. 



Mr. Salter speaks, in the same communication, of the " blundering" use of 

 MS. names by me, all of which he says are wrong, but not having seen the 



