| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Northern England and Geological Society meetings
1826 Scarborough [N. Yks]( 40pp): 6 June: Scarborough. Expedition to Cloughton Wyke with Mr [William] Smith and Mr Williamson; pen and ink section; Abram Wyke (2), Filey Brigg (4), continues to.....[4 February 1826 Geological Society: Debate on Sir A[lexander] Crichton’s paper on the Taunus mountains and the geology of Nassau 95-7)]; Abram Wyke, Whitby (9), Scarborough (10), Scarborough Castel (11), section from Scarborough Castle to Scalby Nab (13), Scalby Mill, r. Derwent, Howardian Hills (14), Scarborough, Cayton Bay (15), Filey Brigg, Cornelian Bay (16), Cayton Bay, Scarborough (17), Cloughton (18). [Scarborough to Whitby by sea.] Whitby, Scarborough, Cloughton (21), White Nab, Cornelian Bay, Oliver’s Mount (22), Cloughton Wyke, Abram Wyke (23), small sketch of Abram Wyke (24), Danecliff (26), Robin Hood’s Bay, Whitby, Salwick Bay 934), Sandsend (35), Saltwick Bay (37-8), Whitby, Aislaby, Guisborough [Cleve] (40), Scaling Dam, Freeborough, Guisborough Abbey, Roseberry Topping, Stockton (inside back cover). |
| Publication Note | This field trip to the Yorkshire Coast, in which Murchison was notably accompanied by William Smith, was part of the research for Murchison's paper "On the Coal-field of Brora in Sutherlandshire, and some other Stratified Deposits in the North of Scotland", 'Transactions of the Geological Society of London', Series 2, vol 2 (1827), pp293-326. |