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FOOTPRINTS IN A YORKSHIRE SANDSTONE. 



Besides the usual details of the year's work, the Whitby 

 Literary- and Philosophical Society's 85th Report contains a 

 list of the fishes and mammals of the district, and also a note 

 by Mr. Harold Brodrick, relating to some footprints which he 

 found at Saltwick. This occurs under the heading ' A Find ! ! ! ' 

 which rather savours of a Patent Medicine advertisement. 



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There are two casts, w^hich ' w-ere found at Saltwick on two 

 separate rocks, which had evidently fallen from the cliff above, 

 they were both close to the cottage, and, in fact, one had been 

 used as a portion of a flight of steps leading to a table used by 

 Mrs. Agar's visitors for tea.' 



The original specimens, now in the Whitby Museum, have 

 been kindly submitted to us by the secretary, Mr. Thomas 

 New^bitt, and we have also obtained casts, for our permanent 

 collection, by the kindness of the authorities at the British 

 Museum (Natural History). Before returning the originals w^e 

 had them photographed (see fig. i and 2.) 



From the matrix it is pretty evident that the footprints are 

 from the same bed of rock. They are in the form of casts, 

 that is to say they represent the filling in of the impression 

 originally made in the soft material by the footprint, and there- 

 fore^ practically have the samxC shape and appearance as the 

 feet of the animal or animals that made them. 



Naturalist, 



