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means of tlie presence of these " baum pots " and pecten shale, fi-om 

 Leeds to Bradford and Halifax, to Huddersfield, Penistone and Sheffield, 

 and to Lancashire on the other side of the Pennine Chain. Professor 

 Phillips observes, " The uniform occurrence of these pectens and 

 goniatites, through so Avide a range, over one particular thin bed of coal, 

 and in no other part of the coal strata, is one of the most curious 

 phenomena yet observed concerning the distribution of organic remains, 

 and will undoubtedly be found of the highest importance in all inferences 

 concerning the circumstances, which attended the production of coal." 



J. S. 



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Haley Hill Liteeart & Scientific Society, September 13th, 1866. 

 Mr. JOHN WALKER in the Chair. 



Mr. TooTUiLL was proposed as a 

 member oi' this Society. 



Mr. Jxs. SrENCBK exhibited Fossil 

 Unios from four diH'ercnt strata of rocks 

 in this district, viz : — from between soft- 

 bed coal and millstone-grit, from above 

 soft-bed coal Shibdeu, from Northowram 

 ragstone, and from Low-moor Ironstone. 



Mr. John Walsh exhibited Fossils, 

 Gryphea Incur va, and Belemnite from 

 the Oolite shewing the Phragmacone. 

 Helix Aspersa, H. Nemoralis, Patelln, 

 Trochus Umbilicata, &c , from Scar- 

 borough. 



Mr. James Crosslet made some 

 remarks on the habits of the Hawk tribe 

 and exhibited eggs of the Merlin (F. 



iEsalou) The Kestrel) CF. Tinnunculus) 

 and the Sparrow Hawk (A. Nisus — ) 

 the whole of which he had taken in 

 the Hebden valley. 



Mr. D Baxendalb exhibited Catter- 

 pillars of the Brown Tail Moth (P. 

 Chrysorrha;) and the White Ennine 

 (S. IMenthrasti). also specimens of the 

 following moths, the Bordered Kitten 

 (C. Bifida) bred from larviB taken at 

 York last August, the Chamomile Shark 

 CChamomillie) a pair of which were 

 found on palings at Akroydon in July. 

 &c. 



'1 he Chaie M AS announced that another 

 volume had been received frcm the 

 Kay Society, on Cetacea. 



