THIRTEENTH MEETING. 



ROY/iL INSTITUTION, May 5th, 1845. 



JOS. B. YATES, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. James Lowe presented to the Society, a Cast of 

 the head of the Dodo, — which was stated to he the only 

 portion of that bird existing in the British Museum. 



Mr. Archer exhibited a fossil from the Sandstone in 

 this neighbourhood ; of a cruciform shape, and unlike 

 any organic remains hitherto observed. 



THE PAPER FOR THE EVENING WAS, 



AN ACCOUNT OF A RECENT VISIT, BY SEVERAL MEMBERS 



OF THE SOCIETY, TO THE SUBMARINE FOREST 



AT LEASOWE. 



By the Rev. A. Hume, L.L D. 



On Saturday, the 19th of April, a party, consisting of 

 fourteen members of this Society, made an excursion to the 

 sub-marine forest at Leasowe. They were anxious to make 

 an examination for themselves of the facts which are said 

 to exist, as well as of others, and to put upon record in the 

 Society the results of that examination. At eleven o'clock 

 they passed over to Woodside, and then took the route 

 through the village of Bidston and by Mockbeggar-hall. 

 The following were some of the objects of interest which 

 presented themselves, and they are stated here in a plain 

 historical narrative, so as to admit of the specific inquiries 

 of the gentlemen in the various departments being en- 

 grafted on it. 



" The first considerable halt was made at the eastern 

 side of Bidston-hill. There, a separate bill exhibits itself, 

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