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grooves mostly straight, *nd general smoothened surfaces, so character- 

 istic of Glacial energy, long continued across hard rocks, are all there 

 to be studied in a most marked degree. Moreover, far up 

 shewing the great thickness of the large blocks are to be 



detected, perched in most "precarious ;dd be 



• impossible (so near the cliff edge ai to rock fraj 



detached from high positions on the steep mountain side by ordinary 

 action of weather ; but which indicate the relics left by thi 

 ice when the last Glacial Epoc ay to a milder climal 



confirming such former condition of things at this :-, 

 from among stones thrown out for building purposes, from under a 

 layer of peat. I picked up a large stone finely striated i 

 characteristic manner. Ho marked are th 



below the deep lake there partly cliff-bound, which a to tin- 



scenery of that wild spot, 1 can itri commend them to any 



student of former Glacial Action in these Islands. — Hoi 

 F.G.S.. Stourbridge. August, 18th, 1881. 



Mcports' of fitorieties. 



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BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 

 SOCIETY. — August 2nd. Mr. Boiton exhibited Bacillaria paradoxa, fr< m 



the Birmingham Canal, near Albion Station. This Lpecins wa* reputed ti 

 confined to brackish water. Mr. Bagnall exhibited Euonymus I uroi 

 and Lathjrus sylvestris, from Ch.sterton Wood; Samolus Valerandi and 

 Trifolium fragiferum from Itchington. Mr. J. H. Pumphrey exhibited 

 Epipactis latifolia, Verbena ron acris, Pyrus mitis, and 



Chlora perfoliata, from Sytnond's Yat. Mr. W. J. Harrison exhibited a 

 drawing of a piate of ivory, on which the ouciine of a mammoth had 1> en 

 sketched by some pre-historic man. Mr. Grove exhibited Polyporus igniarius, 

 " the rusty-hoof Polyporus," from near Temple Balsall. Mr. Harris, n pre- 

 sented six, and Mr. Parsons twenty-four, slides for the Society's cabinet. — 

 August 9th. — Biological Section. Mr. T. Boiton exhioited Actinophrya 

 xiridis. — August 16th. Mr. Wagstaff exhibited a slide of Volvox violator, showing 

 the yellow resting-spores. Mr. Boiton exhibited Bowerbarikia I'edi- 



cellina cernua, dyneoryne frutescens, and Clylia Jbhnstoni, from Brighton. 

 Mr. Levick exhibited numbers of Leptodora hyalina, from the Warwick 

 Canal, within four miles of Birminrrham. Mr. W. R. Hughes exhibited the 

 following marine animals, dredged by the Society at Oban in July last, and 

 still living : — (Zoophyta,) tagartia viduata, the snake-iocked anemone, Ca 

 phyllia Smithii, the Devonshire cup-coral ; (Polyzoa,) Alcyonidium hirsutum, 

 thi- stag's-horn polype ; (Brachiopoda,) Terebratula entis, the lamp- 



shell; (Gastropoda,) Turrit ella communis, arid Aporrhais pes-pelicani ; the 

 eggs of Lepidogaster bimaculatus, the two-spotted sucking-fish, on a valve of 

 Pecten ; and several living specimens of Barnacles. He also describe i 

 method by which he had preserved them alive for so long, without the con- 

 venience of a marine aquarium. — August 23rd. — Geological Section. Mr. 

 W. J. Harrison, F.G.S., in the chair. Mr. Wagstaff exhibited Lopl 

 crystallinus, and Bail wn moniliforme ; Mr. J. Bagnall, ' 



fcetida, var., papillata, Arctium minus, Carduus eriephorus, .', n</i- 



buliformis, and (for Mr. C E. Crick,) cUe\ a; Mr. W. H. Jones, 



Woodsia alpina, from Norway ; and Mr. W. H. Whkinson, the Rose 

 Bedeguar. A paper by Mr. W. Liuford of Exeter, was read, descriptive of 

 the remarkable pebble-bed at Budieigh Salterton, on the South Devon coast. 

 The pebbles appear to have been derived from certain rocks which occur in 

 Normandy, or from an extension of those rocks under the English Channel. 

 Similar pebbles occur in countless numbers round Birmingham, but from 

 what rock the latter specimens have been derived is stiil unknown. 



