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800 feet. The colour of the red chalk is very variable. At Speeton 
it is rich in colour and in fossils, whilst at Burdale it is a duller colour 
and in some places grey. Mr. Cole refers to the discovery at the 
bottom of the Atlantic of the red clay during the voyage of the 
" Challenger," and expresses the opinion that the two had probably 
a similar origin. 
The occurrence of certain fish-remains in the Coal Measures, and 
the evidence they afford of fresh water origin, formed the subject of a 
paper by Mr. James AY. Davis. The objects of this paper were to des- 
cribe a bed of cannel coal existing overa limited area of the West Riding 
of Yorkshire, and to enumerate the remains of fossil fishes which occur 
in it, and further, to consider the relation of these fishes to each 
other, and the evidence they afford as to the circumstances attending 
their deposition. The cannel coal extends over an area of sixteen to 
twenty square miles, and appears to be the result of the decay of 
vegetable matter in inland lagoons or depressions. The coal is thickest 
in the centre of these depressions, and thins off towards the margin. 
The extent and character of the coal is traced throughout the district 
which comprises Adwalton, Gildersome, Morley, Tingley, and Ardsley. 
At Tingley, a large number of fish-remains had been obtained from 
the cannel coal and the shale immediately contigu(jus to it. Twelve 
species had been identified. Besides these were the bones of a 
labyrinthodont, some unios, and entomostraca. The relationship of 
the fish-remains with others existing at the present time is traced, 
and the inference drawn that they lived and the coal was deposited 
in fresh water. 
At a meeting at Selby, held in March, Mr. J. T. Atkinson pre- 
sided, and gave an interesting resume of the history and objects of 
the Society, together with a brief notice of the geology of the district 
around Selby. Mr. J. R. Dakyns, of H.M. Geological Survey, con- 
tributed a paper on the southward flow of Shap granite boulders. 
These boulders are plentiful in the neighbourhood of Kendal, and to 
have reached that district must have passed over the Silurian rocks 
which form the high ground between the two areas. Shap granite 
occurs at a height of 1,659 feet above the sea level on Sleadale Pike. 
The author arrives at the conclusion that an ordinary glacier would 
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