INTRODUCTION 
IN compiling this Bibliography, assistance has necessarily 
been obtained from lists already published, especially 
with regard to topographical works, which often contain 
items of geological interest. 
Phillips' Geology of Yorkshire (1st edition, 1829 ; 2nd, 
1835 ; 3rd, 1875) contains lists of several of the more import- 
ant works bearing upon the geology of the county. The 
Geological Survey publications (of which there is an 
unusually large number for our county), generally contain 
lists of papers referring to the particular area covered by a 
memoir. 
During the years 1874-1896, the late James W. Davis 
printed lists of publications on the geology of the county for 
each of those years, in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geo- 
logical and Polytechnic Society (Vols. VI. -XII.). A useful 
account of the chief publications in this Society's proceedings 
was also given by Davis in his History of the Society (form- 
ing Vol. X. of the Proceedings, 479 pages, published in 1899). 
It covered the years 1837 to 1887. 
In 1903, Mr. W. Lower Carter compiled a ' Classified Index 
to the first fourteen volumes of the Proceedings.'* 
Perhaps, however, the most complete lists appeared in 
The Naturalist, and the Transactions of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists Union. These contained ' Papers and Records 
published with respect to the Geology and Palaeontology of 
the North of England,' and, of course, included Yorkshire ; 
in these bibliographies each item is plainly marked as to which 
county it refers. They appeared as follows : — 
* See Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, vol. 15, part 1, 
pages 96-153. 
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