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certain parts, was due to the larger quantities brought down by 

 rains from the nearest points of Flay brick and Bidston hills. 



Mr. Higginson remarked that a friend of his, had thought 

 he had recognized the wood of the Walnut and the Yew, as 

 well as of the Oak, the Alder, and the Birch. 



Mr. Nisbet had been much interested to see how very 

 readily the radicles and runners of different grasses had pene- 

 trated through every part of the trees found in the peat, 

 showing how completely they had been softened. He had not 

 heard of any animal remains having been discovered, but the 

 overlooker of the works had informed him that at one spot, 

 a hoard of nuts had been found, amounting in quantity to 

 three or four quarts. He considered that these had probably 

 been the store of a squirrel. 



Dr. Inman objected to the idea that the prostrate trees had 

 all been felled by the axe. Forests in other places had been 

 known to have become converted into mosses, in which nume- 

 rous trees were discovered, and where the instrumentality of 

 man could not have been in operation. He considered that 

 their fall was due to their trunks having become dead satura- 

 ted and softened, by moist vegetable debris — accumulating 

 round their roots. In this condition they would be readily 

 snapped by storms, which would have no effect on that part 

 of the tree lying below the level of the moss. 



Mr. Swinton Boult then read a paper entitled The 

 National Credit — the basis of the National Currency, which 

 has been pubbshed as a separate pamphlet. 



