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Proceedings. 



General Meeting, February 21st, 1888. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Alfred Ree, Ph.D., F.C.S., of Middleton, near 

 Manchester, and Mr. Alfred D. Hall, of the Hulme 

 Grammar School, Manchester, were elected ordinary mem- 

 bers. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 21st, 1888. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. F. J. Faraday, F.L.S., exhibited fragments of the 

 perched blocks on Norber, a spur of Ingleborough, and 

 other specimens of the rocks of the vicinity, and gave a 

 preliminary sketch of a new hypothesis to account for the 

 peculiar position of the perched blocks, with suggestions as 

 to the influence of subsidence in the production of some 

 of the remarkable features of the district, and the bearing of 

 the hypothesis on the question of geological time. 



