33. On some Sections exposed during the Formation of the Line of Kailway between Upton and Kirk Smeaton [1882]. Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. vol. viii. (1884), pp. 107-113. 34. ཚ་ཚ On a New Species of Heterolepidotus from the Lias. Ibid. vol. viii. (1884), pp. 403-407, pl. xxii. 35. On the Contortions of the Chalk at Flamborough Head. Ibid. vol. ix. (1885), pp. 43-49. 36. 37. ོཚ Note on Chlamydoselachus anguineus, Garman. Ibid. vol. ix. (1885), pp. 98-113, pl. xi. On the relative age of the remains of Man in Yorkshire. Ibid. vol. ix. (1886), pp. 201-214. 38. On some remains of Fossil Trees in the Lower Coal-measures at Clayton, near Halifax. Ibid. vol. ix. (1886), pp. 253-256. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. On the Exploration of the Raygill Fissure in Lothersdale. Ibid. vol. ix. On some Fish-remains from the Tertiary Strata of New Zealand. GEOL. Notes on a Collection of Fossil Fish-remains from the Mountain Lime- The Fossil Fishes of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria. Trans. On the ancient Flint-users of Yorkshire. Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. Note on a Fossil Species of Chlamydoselachus. GEOL. MAG., Dec. III. vol. iv. (1887), pp. 392, 393. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1887), pp 542-544 46. Note on a Species of Scymnus from the Upper Tertiary Formation of New Zealand. Geol. Mag., Dec. III. vol. v. (1888), pp. 315, 316. 47. On Fossil Fish-remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary Formations of New Zealand. Trans. Royal Dublin Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. (1888), pp. 1-48, pls. i-vii. 48. History of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, 1837-1887. Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. vol. x. (1889), pp. i-ix., 1-479. 49. The Lake-Dwellings of East Yorkshire. Ibid. vol. xi. (1889), pp 101-113. 50. Summary of Geological Literature relating to Yorkshire published during 1888. Ibid. vol. xi. pt. i. (1889), pp. 128, 129. 51. On the Fossil Fish of the Cretaceous Formations of Scandinavia. Trans. Royal Dublin Soc vol. iv. ser. ii. (1899), pp. 363-434, pls. xxxviii.-xlvi. 52. Fossil Fish-remains from Carboniferous Shales at Cultra, co. Down, Ireland. Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. vol. xi. pt. ii. (1890), pp. 332-334. 53. Summary of Geological Literature relating to Yorkshire published during 1889. Ibid. vol. i. pt. ii. (1890), p. 344. 54. On the Dentition of Pleuroplax (Pleurodus) A. S. Woodw. Ann. Mag. Nat Hist. ser. vi. vol. v. (1890), pp. 291-294, pl. xiii. 55. On Calacanthus Phillipsii, Agassiz. Geol. Mag., Dec. III. vol. vii. (1890), pp. 159-161. 56. Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Bretton Park. pp. 223-227. Naturalist, (1890), 57. On a New Species of Coccodus (C. Lindströmi, Davis). Quart Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlvi. pp. 565-568, pl. xxii. 58. On the Discovery of a New Species of Fossil Fish (Strepsodus Brockbanki) in the Upper Coal Measures Limestone of Levenshulme, near Manchester. Mem. and Proc Manchester Lit and Phil. Soc. [4] vol iv. 1891 (reprint paged 1-3), Geol. Mag., Dec. III. vol. viii. (1891), p. 465. 59. On some Sections in the Liassic and Oolitic Rocks of Yorkshire. Proc, Yorkshire Geol. Soc. vol. xii. part ii. (1892), pp. 170-214. 60. On the Fossil Fish-remains of the Coal Measures of the British Islands. Part i. Pleuracanthide. Trans Royal Dublin Soc. Sci. [2] vol. iv. (1892), pp. 703-748, plates lxv -lxxiii and Geol. Mag, Dec. III. vol. x (1892), pp. 72-75. POSTHUMOUS-On the Fossil Fish-remains of the Coal-measures of the British Isles, Part II; Acanthodidae. Dublin (Trans. Roy. Soc.) 1894. 4. 10 pg. W. plates. THOMAS WILLIAM EMBLETON. Thomas William Embleton was the son of Thomas Embleton, and was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, October 4th, 1809. He was educated at the Witton-le-Wear Grammar School, afterwards entering the University of Edinburgh. He served an apprenticeship to his uncle, Mr. George Hill, of Kenton, who had an extensive practice as Mining Engineer to the Gosforth and other collieries. At the early age of twenty-one years, in 1830, he succeeded Mr. Blenkinsop in the management of the Brandling Collieries, at Middleton, near Leeds, a position which he retained until 1865. Blenkinsop was from the North, and earnestly devoted himself to the problem of mechanical haulage, in 1811 patenting a locomotive engine with two double-acting cylinders and working on a toothed rail. The operations of these engines at the Middleton Collieries were for many years a source of much interest and wonder to the public, as they were the first instances of the regular employment of locomotive power for commercial purposes. Mr. Embleton made several improvements in the engines, and was the first to turn the steam into the funnel, with the result of increased draught and greater development of power. In 1865, Mr. Embleton's connection with the Middleton Collieries ceased, and in the following year he took charge of the extensive collieries belonging to Messrs. J. and J. Charlesworth, retaining this engagement until 1888. During this period he was responsible for the sinking of several new shafts to different seams. As a Consulting Engineer he acted for the Earl of Mexborough, Mr. George Lane Fox, and the Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery. He was also a partner in the Monkbretton Colliery, and directed the sinking of its pits. In difficulties connected with colliery management his advice was much sought, and where questions of trespass, damage from subsidence, &c., arose, his opinion was always received as coming from one who spoke with great experience and authority. In the terribly trying times when explosions claimed their holocaust of victims, Mr. Embleton's advice was especially valued. Thus, after the explosion at the Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, on December 12th, 1866, he was called in, with other eminent mining engineers, to control the recovery of the workings. He contributed to the Midland Institute of Mining Engineers a very interesting paper on the steps adopted for this end, with registers of the readings of the barometers, thermometers, and pressure gauges during a period of ten months. Mr. Embleton was a member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, from the year 1855, contributing various papers to its Transactions. Mr. Embleton's connection with the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society forms a thread which begins with the organization of the Society and runs without interruption for fifty-six years. In the History of the Society by the late Hon. Sec., Mr. J. W. Davis, published in 1889, the author acknowledges his indebtedness to Mr. Embleton for the most important facts connected with its earliest years. It was his habit to preserve particulars of Meetings of the Council and of the Society, and it was from notes taken by him that reports of its earlier gatherings were furnished to the newspapers. It was on the proposition of Mr. Embleton that a preliminary meeting of Coalowners, held at Wakefield, on December 1st, 1837, adopted the initial steps for founding "The Geological Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire." The late Mr. Thomas Wilson, M.A., was the first Hon. Sec., and he received from Mr. Embleton the most cordial co-operation in the details of organization. The Society's object was declared as "Collecting and methodising Geological and Mechanical Information in connection with the Coal Fields of Yorkshire." At about this period Mr. Embleton conducted several of his colleagues in expeditions in the Middleton coal pits, under his management, and in other collieries. The result was the discovery of fossil remains of fishes, &c. The head of Megalichthys Hibberti had been found at Low Moor a few years earlier. This classical specimen was described by Professor Louis Agassiz, after it came under his notice during the visit which he paid with Professor Buckland, in 1824, to the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Amongst geologists outside Yorkshire who watched with interest the birth of the new Society, none offered more hearty co-operation than Professor Johnston, of Durham. His name had been added to those of Dr. William Smith and Professor John Phillips as Honorary Members. Professor Johnston held the view of the need of enlarging the scope of the Society so as to embrace whatever concerned the operations of mining, and he adopted the term Polytechnic to describe this branch of knowledge. By correspondence with Mr. Embleton and other friends in Yorkshire, Prof. Johnston was enabled to complete his materials for a lecture representing the existing conditions of the industry of Coal-mining. This was delivered at the second meeting of the Society, held at Wakefield, in June, 1838, being subsequently printed as a pamphlet and circulated amongst the Members. Mr. Embleton's letters to the lecturer are published, and are very interesting and suggestive on such points as the relations of the Middleton, Lofthouse, and Haigh Moor beds, and on the varying behaviour of candle-flame in air charged with fire-damp. Mr. Embleton described to the Society the resinous mineral Middletonite, discovered at Middleton Colliery about 1831. He brought this substance under the notice of the British Association at its meeting in Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1838. At the meeting of the West Riding Geological Society, held March, 1839, Mr. Embleton read a paper on "The Strata between the Bradford Rock and the Forty Yards Coal at Middleton," illustrated by a number of specimens of the rocks passed through in sinking a shaft from the surface to the first workable coal in the Middleton Colliery. Much importance was attached by the author to the careful observation and comparison of any fossils found in the roof of the coal. At the meeting held in May, Mr. Embleton and another Member were requested to confer with the Lancashire Society on the scales to be adopted for sections and plans. In June, he called the attention of a meeting at Sheffield to the need for a Geological Survey of the County on a large scale, moving the adoption of a petition to the House of Commons for a new Ordnance Survey of the Northern Counties on a scale of six inches to the mile. The petition was adopted. In December, the Society met in Leeds, under the presidency of the Vicar, the Rev. W. F. Hook, D.D., who had been invited |