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Since both the beds and the fossils which they 

 contained were clearly different from anything seen 

 in the Ardwick limestones, it was obvious that Dr. 

 Henry's suggestions as to the age and geological 

 position of these latter strata were mistaken ones. 

 It soon became evident that the Ardwick limestones 

 belonged to the uppermost portions of the carboni- 

 ferous series. 



In October 1836, I communicated to Vol. IX. of 

 the third series of the London and Edinburgh Philo- 

 sophical Magazine a memoir on the "Limestones 

 " Found in the Vicinity of Manchester, "giving a full 

 account of their relative positions and of the fossils 

 which they contained, so far as the latter objects 

 were then known to us. 



Encouraged by the results of the meeting just 

 recorded, Dr. Phillips took another step. He in- 

 formed me that a part of my duty to the Society 

 whose officer I had just become, consisted in working 

 out the general geology of the district, and seeing 

 that I had been correct in my identification of the 

 Collyhurst beds, and having heard that similar beds 

 were exposed in a cutting of the line of the recently 

 constructed Manchester and Liverpool Railway, he 

 sent me off to examine and report upon them. I 

 obeyed his instructions, but when, after my return, 

 he laid before the treasurer my little bill of expenses 

 the storm broke out anew. The then treasurer was 

 Mr. Thomas Fleming, a remarkable but aged man, 

 who had made a large fortune in one of those by- 



