VIII.—New Fossiliferous Horizon in the Coniston Grits of Windermere

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Fossil remains in the Coniston Grit Series in the Lake District are generally so scarce, except in the flaggy beds exposed in the quarry near Latrigg on Applethwaite Common, that considerable interest attaches to the discovery, made in January of the present year, of a bed which is highly fossiliferous, in a quarry recently opened in connexion with the drainage works of Bowness and indermere. The quarry is close to the shore of the lake, near the outh-west corner of the Calgarth estate.