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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
It has frequently been asserted that the “born geologist”—as distinguished from the geologist made by education and training—owes his conception chiefly to the formation on which he happens to be born. Nor is it the beauty of the scenery and the attractiveness of firth and fell, mountain and glen, that usually give the impulse in the making of the geologist. It comes in most cases from the fossils he sees strewn around him in quarry or hillside—things that can be collected and fascinate the youthful mind even more than the rocks themselves. But whether the strata or the fossils are the stimulus required, it is beyond dispute that Yorkshire—in which both are conspicuous — takes a leading place in England as the birthplace of so many eminent geologists in the past century, and amongst them the subject of our present sketch worthily deserves to find a place.
page 338 note 1 The history of the Bridlington Crag is given in a paper by the late Dr. S. P. Woodward in this journal, Vol. I, p. 49, 1864, which records details of the various early investigators and a list of the shells in this deposit compared with the Coralline Red and Norwich Crag, the Glacial deposits, and living species.Google Scholar
page 339 note 1 He once described himself as “a coastguard” in the service of geological science.Google Scholar
page 339 note 2 Published in the Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou with 11 plates (Moscow, 1892);Google Scholarsee also Geol. Mag., 1892, pp. 422–6.Google Scholar
page 340 note 1 Another skeleton of Cervus megaceros, discovered in the Isle of Man in 1819, was presented to the Edinburgh Museum by the Duke of Athol. Many other remains of the same deer have been met with from 1798 onwards (see Geol. Surv. Mem., 1903, pp. 377–88).Google Scholar
page 341 note 1 A paper read before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in South Africa at Johannesburg, August 30, 1905.Google ScholarSee also the Official Guide to the Falls, 1905, and the Geological Magazine for 12, 1905, pp. 529–32.Google Scholar