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have saved volumes of disputation on both sides of the Atlantic.” 
» 11. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Vol. IL — 
This volume of two hundred and thirty-six pages, 8vo, is illustrated by: 
nine beautiful plates. The subjects treated of are, 
On some of the Objects and Uses of Geological Researches, By Dr. or 
Il. Sketch of the Geology of Manchester and its vicinity. By Mr. E. W. 
Binney. 
MII. Observations on the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Field, with a Section. 
By Mr. E. W. Binne ey. 
IV. Remarks on the Marine Shells found in the Lancashire Coal Field. By 
rE. W. Bin ney. 
n the Origin of Coal; and the, Geological Conditions under which it was 
Proded B Mr. . E. Bowman 
I. Observations on the Ohirictors of the Fossil Trees lately discovered on the 
ine of the Bolton Railway, near Manchester. Mr. J. 
VII. On a White Fossil Powder found under a Peat Bog in Lincolnshire, com- 
ree of re siliceous fragments of microscopic parasitical Conferve. By Mr. J. 
ow 
vii, Oa the Fossil Fishes of the Pendleton Coal Field. By Mr. E. W. Binney, 
IX. On the’ Economy of raising Water from Coal Mines, on the Cornish prin- 
_ ciple. By Mr. W. Fairbairn. 
- Noti of Upper Silprian Rocks in the vale of Llangollen, Mae Pe ar ; 
= of a contiguots he of Trap and Compact Felspar. By Mr. J. E. Bow 
I. Description of some — — of Fossil Shells, found: iii in the Vale 
Mr rnin Yorkshire a Capt. Thomas Brown. 
Description of Plates. ag 
Most of these memoirs we have attentively read, ‘and all we have look- 
manliness and utility as well as of science ; and eat both by 
this volume and the productions | of its earlier philosophical society, as 
Well as by its deceased Henry, and by its Dalton, and the other living 
men who cultivate. useful knowledge, has redeemed itself from the 
character of being a mere emporium of manufactures and trade. 
The Geological Soeiety has for its head the Right Hon. Lord Francis 
Egerton, supported by a list of officers, several of whom appear as au-, 
thors i in this volume of Transactions. We observe with much regret, 
the dead, whom Mr. Murchison has commemorated in the annual 
address before the Geological Society. of London, the name. of John 
Eddowes Bowman, F.GS.,. L.S., &c. .Four of the eleven papers in this 
me es fiom bt pep Thay be vss fahabl eand instructive, and 
“atin, ‘No. 1, ee 
