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that may occur of presenting a similar report to the 

 Society. 



(The specimens of the various kinds of wood which 

 had been procured, were all laid upon the table. One 

 of them attracted particular attention. It was a large 

 piece of oak, about the consistency of putty, containing 

 nearly a hundred specimens of Pholas, of various sizes, 

 which, when the specimen was taken up, were all engaged 

 in making their curious perforations. The horn was also 

 exhibited, Two beautiful illustrations were forwarded ' 

 by Mr. Mc.Clure — the one an enlarged map of the north 

 end of the hundred of Wirral, and the other a view of 

 the submarine forest.) 



Dr. Watson reported, in connexion with the subject 

 of the fossil bones of the red deer, having been found 

 in the sub-merged land, that bones picked up by him in 

 the same district, and before shown to the society, viz., a 

 tibia, or shin-bone, and a vertebra of the neck, had 

 been identified by Dr. Scouler, the professor of geology 

 to the Royal Dublin Society, as "belonging to the 

 elk or moose deer, though of a small individual of the 

 species." According to Mr. Geo. Thompson, the head and 

 antlers of the same animal were picked up here also, by 

 some members of the British Association, in 1837. They 

 are deposited in the Museum of King's College, London. 



Dr. W. also alluded to the well-known occurrence of the 

 remains of another sub-merged forest on the North shore, 

 bounding Bootle Bay, presenting similar appearances of 

 tree stumps, clay, &c. It is perhaps a continuation of that 

 on the south side of the Mersey. He also noticed the fact 

 of his having observed, on the land of the Leasowe shore, 

 numerous black marks on the ridges formed by the retreating 

 waves, which were composed chiefly of the mineral iserine, 

 as " proved by its readiness of selection with the magnet, 



