Association have done much work in this direction, or whether 

 they have left their President alone in his explorations ; but in our 

 Furness district, until t^velve months ago, no one appears to have 

 given the formation the least attention, or if the Survey officers 

 have worked upon it, the results of their labours have been carefully 

 hidden in the archives of their Department. The neighbourhood 

 of Barrow is singularly favourable for making examinations ; the 

 formation is not one that is ever commercially explored, except for 

 subsidiary reasons, and therefore with the chief exception of railway 

 cuttings, we have to depend on the sea shore for sections, and in 

 most places there will not be more than a dozen miles of beach 

 within half a dozen miles ; but at Barrow, in consequence of the 

 configuration of the land, giving us Morecambe Bay on one side, 

 the estuary of the Duddon on the other, and to seaward the long 

 island of Walney, with other smaller islands, we have within half a 

 dozen miles probably forty miles of coast, — thus "we have most 

 exceptional opportunities for exploring the Boulder Clay and its 

 accompanying beds, which a number of the members of the Barrow 

 Field Club, who are working conjointly on the subject, propose to 

 take advantage of. When this joint action was first proposed 

 last winter, it was more with the object of working on the contained 

 boulders, rather than on the formation as a whole ; but the field 

 has widened at every step, and new subjects crop up in endless 

 succession. Our first work, however, was with the boulders, to 

 endeavour to find out their origin. Their variety was so amazing, 

 and there were such numbers which at first we did not recognize, 

 that most of our time has been occupied with these rocks, collecting 

 them in their various forms and correlating them as far as possible 

 with the rocks of the district. This was no easy matter; the 

 boulders lie scattered in such absolute confusion, of many ages, 

 and of the most varied composition, that a stranger would deem it 

 impossible that such could all have had an approximately local 

 derivation, and might hastily assume that the iceberg theory would 

 most easily account for this extraordinary assortment of rocks. 

 We determined as far as possible to collect every variety of 

 boulder that could be found, distinguishing between loose 



