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1568, in the matter of dispute with the Council of the Marches 

 of Wales, on " Radford's case/' as before mentioned. 



The entire Manuscript will, in all probability, be printed 

 in the " Cheetham Society's" publications. 



Mr. C. J. Ross then read the first part of a paper on the 

 Economics of Echication. 



Twelfth Meeting — April 15, 1850. 

 ROBERT McANDREW, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Thomas Dorning Hibbert was elected a member of 

 the Society. 



Resignations were received from Mr. C. Reed, and Mr. F. 

 R. Grote. 



The Corporation presented Mr. Stephenson's Report on the 

 Water Question. 



Mr. NiSBET exhibited specimens of Iserine (an ore of 

 titanium and iron), and Greenstone in various stages of disin- 

 tegration, found plentifully along the western shore of the 

 Mersey, especially between Seacombe and Egremont, as first 

 pointed out by Dr. Traill about thirty years ago. After heavy 

 rains, in places not washed by the tide, the former (which is 

 usually looked on as soot from the steamers) is found — vary- 

 ing from the thinnest layers to three inches in thickness — at 

 the foot of the clay bank, which is interspersed with numerous 

 nodules of rocks. It is generally supposed that the Iserine is 

 washed out of the soil, but it evidently arises from the disin- 

 tegration of the Greenstone, which exists as boulders, varying 

 from the smallest size to that of two feet in diameter. The 



