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Northern News, 



The Series appears to thin^ out rapidly south of Stoke-on- 

 Trent, and North of Settle, the characteristic fauna has not yet 

 been found in any beds between Settle and the Valley of the 

 Clyde. The series also thins out to the West, being represented 

 on the West coast of Ireland by about 80 feet of dark shales 

 with calcareous nodules, and apparently representing the 

 middle part of the Series, the characteristic Goniatites being 

 Glyphioceras reticulatum and G. diadema. No trace of the 

 fauna has been found in the Ingleboro' area, where Mr. Cosmo 

 Johns has demonstrated the following succession : — Upper 

 Dibunophyllum, Lower Dihunophyllum, Seniinula beds, Base- 

 ment Conglomerate. 



A change in the method and character of deposition has 

 set in between Settle and Ingleboro', which is of great impor- 

 tance. Within these few miles the lithological and faunal 

 character of the sequence has largely altered, a fact well 

 recognised by the older geologists with regard to the lithology, 

 but the faunal change was not at all appreciated. 



About the latitude of Settle the rich cephalopod fauna 

 and the characteristic limestones and shales of the Pendleside 

 Series disappear, and no trace has been found of them in the 

 Yoredale Series. Moreover, wherever the Pendleside Series 

 occurs it succeeds a Visean fauna of the highest facies. 



The coral fauna which always underlies the Posidonomya 

 becheri beds, throughout the area in which it is developed, 

 consists of Cladochonus hacillaris, Michilinia tennisepta, 

 Zaphrentis Enniskilleni, and other species of the genera 

 Amplexi-zaphrentis and Cyathaxonia, but in addition the 

 Upper Visean beds of the Pendleside area are very rich in 

 brachiopoda, Mollusca and Fish Remains. For example, a 

 rich fish fauna is found in the Red beds or the highest limestones 

 of the Yoredale Series in Wensleydale, and this fauna differs 

 entirely from the fish fauna of the Pendleside Series, and 

 agrees very markedly with the fish fauna found in the upper 

 part of the limestone of Derbyshire and Staffordshire. 



( To be continued ). 



The Yorkshire Wild Birds' and Eggs' Protection Committee begs to 

 acknowledge the receipt of two guineas from the Royal Society for the 

 Protection of Birds. 



We are glad to see that Mr. G. \N. Lampliigh, F.R.S., has been elected 

 a Vice-President of the Geological Society. Professor W. W. Watts has 

 been similarly honoured, his place as Secretary having been taken by 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 



NaturaKst, 



