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An Account of the Footsteps of the Cheirotherium and Jive or six smaller 

 Animals in the Stone Quarries of Storeton Hill, near Liverpool, 

 communicated by the Natural History Society of Liverpool, through 

 Dr. Buckland. 



These footsteps were first noticed, in June last, by Mr. Cunningham 

 and Mr. Tomkinson, who have taken means to preserve specimens in 

 the Museum of the Natural History Society of Liverpool. Dr. Buck- 

 land having visited the quarries last week, confirmed the accuracy of 

 the statements contained in the present communication. He found 

 nearly all the circumstances identical with those attending the footsteps 

 of similar animals discovered at Hildberghausen in Saxony, three years 

 ago, in a bed of white stone belonging to the new red sandstone forma- 

 tion. The most remarkable of these footsteps are those of the hind- feet 

 of the Cheirotherium, which nearly resemble the form of a large man's 

 hand ; the fore-feet of this animal have made much smaller impres- 

 sions : other footsteps of four or five smaller animals are found on the 

 same slabs with those of the Cheirotherium ; they are apparently the 

 tracks of small aquatic and land tortoises. (A further account has 

 been communicated to the Geological Society since the meeting at 

 Newcastle. — See Geological Proceedings, vol. iii. No. 59.) 



Dr. Buckland exhibited and explained enlarged sections copied from 

 Cotta's recently published sections, showing granite and syenite over- 

 lying strata of the chalk formation at Hohnstein, Oberau, and Wein- 

 bohla in Saxony ; and laid on the table Mr. Cotta's Memoir in which 

 they are described. 



On a Plan of Cementing together Small Coal and Coal Dust for Fuel. 

 By Mr. Oram. 



Dr. Buckland stated the object of this plan to be the rendering these 

 substances available for economical purposes, by moulding them into 

 the form of bricks ; and stated the results of trials made by Mr. Oram, 

 at Woolwich, to test the efficiency of this substance, when it appeared 

 that in working a 10-horse pumping engine, 750lbs. of this prepared 

 fuel were equivalent to 11281bs. of Wylam Main coal. 



104'6lbs. of large Welsh coal. 



9881bs. of Pontop coal, 

 and to 6801bs. of a compound of the small coal, an- 

 thracite, and coke. These experiments were made under the inspec- 

 tion of P. Ewart, Esq. 



Description of a Cave at Cheddar, Somersetshire, in which Human as 

 well as Animal Bones have been lately found. By Mr. Long. 



After noticing the circumstances which led to the discovery of the 

 bones, the author describes the cave. 



