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Mammalian Remains at Bridlington. — Dkar Sie, — I recently found a 
fossil lilephiuit's tusk, embedded in bouldered ehiilk, in a line with, and adjoin- 
ing the coniincncenient of the elialk near Bridlington. In cousequeuce of the 
great pressure of boulder and ot her dril't upon it, it is mucli crushed ; m fact, 
the longest piece is only six. inches in length. Tiiere were other fragments in 
situ several inches long, and very thick. Before I disturbed the tusk it 
measured three feet nine inches, but wiieu I attempted to take it out it fell into 
pieces. — Yours, etc., Edwakd Tind.^ll. 
Smoking Pipes from the Excavations of the Surkey Dock. — Dear 
Sir, — At Greenhithe, or Kotherhithe, near the banks of the Thames, where, for 
several months last year, the workmen have been digging out a place for a new 
dock, called the Grand Surrey Dock, they found, at various depths, a quantity 
of clay smoking-pipes in a bed of undisturbed gravel, which bed of gravel ex- 
tended all over the dock, and the pipes spoken of were mixed in it here and 
tiiere all over all that area, at various depths — from twenty to thirty feet from 
the siu-face. Tiie pipes, sixteen in number, which have been brought to me are 
all, with one exception, made out of different moulds ; there are not two alike, 
with the exception just made. 
How is it, I would ask, tluit these pipes have been so distributed as to be found 
at thirty-six feet below the present siu-face of the land in that locality ? by 
whom were they made ? and how long since? 
Tlie above questions are of interest, and perhaps may throw some light 
on the ancient histoi^ of smoking. I may mention that the pipes, with the 
smaller bowls were found deepest down amongst the gravel, and the dig- 
gings were about from fifty to sixty yards from the Thames. Some of the 
pipes had stems five inches to six inches long, others shorter, all of them 
more or less mud-stained and broken, but not much water-worn or scratched. 
A tavern once stood on part of the site of this new dock, which had 
foundations four feet below the present sm-faee. This tavern was built pre- 
vious to 1578, and mider it, at a depth of fifteen feet below the founda- 
tion, some of the pipes were found. — Edward Tindall, Bridlington, 2ud 
Jan., 1860. 
The Red Chalk op Yorkshire. — Eor the last two years I have searched 
for this particidar coloured stratum on the western margm of the chalk -hills of 
Yorkshire, and have found it in situ, in a few places, from which also 1 have 
extracted fossils. Why I was first induced to look out for this coloru-ed bed 
was in consequence of kuo^raig its existence at Speeton, and of seeing quoted 
in Phillip's Manual of Geology, page 12, that Lister had found a species of 
belemnite {B. Lisferii), while ascending the Wolds, at Speeton, Loudesoro', and 
Caistor, but always in a red ferruginous earth. 
Mr. Wiltshu-e's paper, " On tlie Red Chalk" is admirably written, and well 
worthy of the greatest encomium ; however, I find in it a few shght miscon- 
ceptions as to the range of some of the Red Chalk fossils of our Wolds, to 
which I will, with your permission, briefly allude. 
In that monograph, page 6, it is mentioned that Young and Bird state that 
" at North Grimstone tlie coloured chalk seems to be wantuig." This, however, 
is a mistake, or partially so, for I find it developed at a place not far from 
thence, immediately above the Kunmeridge Clay. I also know of it at other 
situations not mentioned by other geologists. At page 18 it is said that the 
Terehratula biplicata is very common at Hunstanton, but is not known at 
Speeton, and that the characteristic fossils of the Red Chalk at Speeton are 
Tereljratula semiglobosa, Belemnites minimus, B. elougata, and at Hunstanton 
Terehratula biplicata, Belemnites minimus, and Sponyia paradoxica. Mr. E. 
TindaU, of Bridlington, informs me that he has found at Speeton the follow- 
ing fossils, namely, those figured in plate i., figs. 2, 4, 5 ; plate ii., fig. 4 ; 
