Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens in the Mortimer Museum of Archaeology and Geology at Driffield: With Illustrations
Unfortunately the chalk and other fossils in the cases on the ground ?oor still require thoroughly examining by specialists before they can be completely labelled and classified. Mr. Mortimer has had neither time nor opportunity for this work, and has wisely taken particular care to label the specimens as to the precise locality from which they were obtained, leaving the actual naming of the specimens for others. By getting the various specimens together whilst the opportunity lasted, Mr. Mortimer has given all geologists reason to be grateful. The chalk quarries are not being worked at the present time to anything like the extent they were formerly consequently there is not now the Opportunity of collecting. The reason just given will account for the geological section of the Catalogue not being quite so full and detailed as would otherwise have been the case.
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