On some Sections of Lincolnshire Neocomian

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During the excavations in some of the heavy cuttings required for the Louth and Lincoln railway I had the good fortune, in 1872, to discover a rich locality for the fossils of the Ironstone of this district. The fossils found were deposited for the most part in the Woodwardian Museum, though some were contributed to other collections. I have revisited the locality at various times, once in company with my son, Mr. W. Keeping, M.A., now of York Museum; so that I have had good opportunities for the study of the fauna of these beds. As it has been suggested to me that the cuttings must be getting obscure, through the growth of grass on their slopes, and that it would be desirable to put on record the facts observed, I again last summer visited the railway-cuttings and also the excavations for iron-ore near Claxby. The state in which these openings now are, the rapid way in which the beds are becoming hidden by over-growth, has convinced me that the notes which we have made on the exposures may probably be worth preservation, notwithstanding their incompleteness. They are offered therefore without hesitation, but at the same time with a full sense of their partial and cursory character.

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