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and especially the neighbourhood of Bridlington, has been prosecuted 
in a well-organised and persistent manner for several years past ; of 
eleven papers printed during the last eight years no fewer than eight 
have been on this subject. The papers deal chiefly with the coast 
between Filey and Bridlington Quay, and each paper is so far independ- 
ent of the others that it contains a description of the glacial section at 
some particular locality, but in any one paper it will generally be found 
that one part of the glacial system receives greater attention, and is 
described in fuller detail than the other parts, and in this way the 
whole series of papers, if taken together, forms a continuous account 
of the glacial system as developed in the neighbourhood of Bridlington 
Quay and Flambro'. 
The first of the papers was published in the Proceedings for 1879, 
on the divisions of the Glacial beds in Filey Baj^ In it the author 
pointed out that the divisions made in tlie drifts south of Flambro' 
could also be traced in those lying to the north of the headland, and 
that the supposition of Messrs. Wood & Rome (Q. J. G. S., Vol. xxiv., 
p. 14) that the whole of the boulder clays north of Flambro' could 
be referred to one only of the divisions which they had instituted in 
the drifts of Holderness, was not borne out by the facts, but that on 
the other hand the glacial sequence was possibly more fully developed 
in Filey Bay than in the more southerly parts of the county. The 
value of differences in colour and texture in tracing divisions in 
boulder clay w\as also referred to. 
In the Proceedings for the following year is a short paper on a 
fault in the chalk of Flambro' Head, with some notes on the Drift 
of the locality. After a short description of the fault, which lets 
down the chalk on the north side of Selwick's Bay, he drew attention 
to the drift deposits under the Lighthouse, where the lower boulder 
clay is chiefly derived from the Neocomian and Kimeridge clays, and 
in places consists of pure Neocomian clay, simply removed and in 
the condition of a boulder. Mr. Lamplugh also mentioned that in his 
opinion the patches of secondary clay that occur in the cliff near 
Filey, supposed to be of Middle Kimeridge age, are not in place, 
but are, similarly, boulders in drift. 
In 1881 the Proceedings contain the first paper of a series 
