NOTE on GEOLOGY. 



Boulders at Cawthorne, Barnsley.— I have read with great interest 

 the two papers on Yorkshire boulders in the July ' Naturalist.' Some years 

 ago I had the good fortune to find, almost in situ, an erratic of considerable 

 size (38 x 22 x 16 in.), which had just been dug up in the draining of a field 

 about miles S.S.W. from where I write, and some 4^ miles west of 

 where Mr. W. Hemingway's boulders were found which are mentioned on 

 page 220. I have since found another erratic from the Lake District of the 

 same kind (28x22x14 in.) in a position to which it has evidently been 

 brought from some short distance, about ^ mile N.N.W. from where the 

 other was. One feels encourag'ed to hope that further evidences of ice- 

 agency may be found in this neighbourhood. Prof. Kendall has seen the 

 former of these two and describes it as a cleaved volcanic ash of the 

 Borrowdale series. — Charles T.. Pratt, Cawthorne Vicarage, Barnsley, 

 9th July 1902. 



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NOTE on PLANTS, SHELLS, and BEETLES. 



Notes at Auburn, Holderness Coast: Plants, Shells, Beetles.— 



Three miles south of Bridlington Quay a house, or rather half a house, 

 stands on a hummock by the sandy shore — a relic of the village of Auburn. 

 The landward side of the house appears habitable ; on the seaward side 

 a room, cut through the middle, gapes to the sun and the wind. A little 

 stream here finds its way to the sea, and many sea-side plants thrive — 

 Convolvulus soldctnella opens its large rose-painted vases ; the Sea Rocket 

 exhales its delicate fragrance, and huge blue-green tufts of Elynzus wave 

 gracefully in the breeze. 



Snails abound in the sand, especially Helix cantiana, which I had not 

 before noticed in such a situation. 



At the roots of grass many beetles lurk, specially the big black Broscus 

 cephalotes and the sand-loving Calathus mollis. It is in fact a place to delight 

 a naturalist — lonely, wild, and full of birds, insects, shells, and flowers — 

 'a waste and solitary place,' such as Shelley speaks of with true poetic 

 feeling. — W. C. Hey, West Ayton, Yorkshire, 9th July 1902. 



NOTES on YORKSHIRE PAL/EONTOLOGY. 



Large Mammoth's Tooth at Aldborough. — On a joint excursion of 

 the Hull Geological Society and Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club 

 to Aldborough, on the 5th July, a very fine tooth of a Mammoth {Elephas 

 primigenius) was obtained. The specimen is in an excellent state of 

 preservation, and apparently belonged to a fairly young- animal. In propor- 

 tion the grinding- surface of the tooth is only small, being five inches across, 

 whereas the greatest length of the tooth is twelve inches. Its weight is 

 only a trifle short of fourteen pounds. It has been placed in the Hull 

 Museum. — T. Sheppard, Municipal Museum, Hull, 7th July 1902. 



Pleistocene Fishes in South-East Yorkshire. — In the Geological 

 Magazine for February 1901, Mr. E. T. Newton, F. R.S., gives a list of all 

 the records of remains of British Pleistocene fishes known up to that time. 

 This includes a Perch (Perca fluviatilis L. ) from the posi-Glacial lacustrine 

 deposits at Hornsea and Withernsea, and the Cod-fish {Gadus morhua L.) 

 from the pre-Glacial buried cliff at Sewerby. The former records are taken 

 from Clement Reid's 'Geology of Holderness' (Geol. Surv. Memoir, 1885), 

 and the latter from G. W. Lamplug-h's ; Drifts of Flamborough Headland ' 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. 47, 1891). 



To these records I am able to add remains of the Pike [Esox lucius L. ), 

 from the post-Glacial peat beds at Atwick, Hornsea, and Out Newton. The 

 latter station is between Withernsea and Spurn. — T. Sheppard, Municipal 



Museum, Hull, 5th July 1902. 



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