ON THE ERRATIC BLOCKS OF ENGLAND, WALES, AND IRELAND. 431 



some observations upon the erratics of the upper part of the Tyne valley, 

 near Haltwistle. 



Mr. Dwerryhouse furnishes a valuable and exhaustive series of reports 

 upon the boulders of a portion of the Cheshire Wirral and the previously 

 unreooi'ded district around the Wrekin in Shropshire. 



For the first time since the appointment of the Committee reports 

 have been received from South Wales, where Mr. Storrie has done some 

 excellent work in the neighbourhood of Cardiff. 



From Ireland a second report has been received from the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club. 



ENGLAND. 

 Cheshire. 



Reported by Mr. J. Lomas, A.R.C.S., a7id Captain A. R. Dwerryhouse, 



per Glacialists Association. 



Prenton Village, near Birkenhead — 

 6 L.D. andesites ; 1 fine L.D. Ash ; .S Yewdale breccias ; 1 Eskdale granite ; 

 1 Buttermere granophyre ; 1 Scottish granite ; 1 Criffel granite ; 2 grits of 

 undetermined origin. 



Roman Road, near Little Storeton — 



1 L.D. andesite. 



Road behind Little Storeton — 



2 L.D. andesites ; 1 basaU. 



Railway Ciitting between Barnton and Weston — 

 1 limestone ; 1 diorite. 



Reported by Captain Dwerryhouse, per Glacialists' Association. 



Sutton Weaver — 



3 L.D. andesites ; 3 Eskdale granites. 



Preston Brook — 



4 L.D. andesites ; 2 Eskdale granites ; 1 Buttermere granophyre ; 1 Silurian grit. 



Preston-on-the-IIill — 

 3 L.D. andesites ; 3 Eskdale granites ; 1 grit (? Silurian). 



Willaston and Burton, near Neston — - 

 40 L.D. andesites; 10 L.D. ashes; 1 L.D. andesitic agglomerate; G Eskdale 

 granites ; 3 Buttermere granophyres ; 3 diorites ; 3 Galloway granites ; 

 (! Criffel granites ; 1 f elsite (reddish) ; 1 grit with numerous quartz-veins ; 

 5 grits; 11 Silurian grits ; 2 basalts; 1 limestone. 



Lincolnshire. 



Repo}-ted by Rev. W. Tuckwell. 



Great Grimsby — 



Boulders of Whin Sill are common from Grimsby to Brigg. Several Scandi- 

 navian rocks from the neighbourhood of Christiania were found at depths of 

 10 to 15 feet in the foundations of the new Union. 



