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towards the solid rocks over which they have been carried are illustrated, 

 the account given of the Levenshnlme group furnishing evidence of ice 

 in motion. 



Many noteworthy boulders and groups of boulders are also described. 



Lancashire. 



Eeported by Mr. Thomas Ransome. 



Bolt on-le- Sands. — On eastern shore of Morecambe Bay, 1 mile north 

 of Hest Bank Railway Station ; 12 ft. 6 in. x 8 ft. x 8 ft. ; oblong ; 

 moved ; mountain limestone ; fallen from boulder clay to the sea beach. 



Grojip. 



This is a series of specimens representing all the varieties met with in 

 an examination of the boulder clay exposed in the cliffs at Hest Bank. 

 The determinations are by Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S. — 



1. Shap granite. 



2. Breccia ; red base with large fragments ; ? Brockram. 



3. Grit; gTeenish grey ; very tine and micaceous ; ? Silurian. 



4. Limestone ; red base with many white encrinite stems ; Carboniferous. 



5- ,, black with lithostrotion ; Carboniferous. 



6- « pale buff with ochreous markings ; Carboniferous. 

 7. „ pale buffi with encrinite stems ; Carboniferous. 



^. „ earthy buffi with mollusca ; Carboniferous. 



5. „ dark buffi with dendrites ; Carboniferous. 



10. „ earthy red with Spirifera glabra ; Carboniferous. 



11. Chert with many microzoa ; Carboniferous. 



12. „ black with cuboidal jointing; Carboniferous. 



13. Grit; very coarse, dark red, with quartz and other pebbles the size of a 



pea ; ? origin. 



14. Sandstone, buffi, speckled with brown ; Carboniferous. 



15. „ dark brick red ; micaceous; ? Carboniferous. 

 1«. Grit; coarse quartzose with felspar ; '.'Millstone grit. 



17. Breccia; andesitic with rhyolitic fragments ; ? Yewdale breccia. 



18. ' Halleflinta ' ; buffi greenish ; Borrowdale. 



19. Rhyolite ; liver-coloured ; flinty with few felspars and no quartz ; Borrowdale. 



20. ? Volcanic rock, stained with copper ; 1 Borrowdale. 



21. Breccia ; andesitic with rhyolitic fragments ; Yewdale. 



22. Ash ; greenish to purple ; Borrowdale. 



23. Mica trap. Cf. those of Sedbergh and Kendal. 



24. Granite ; a small fragment grey, with a portion of felspar crystals contain- 



ing inclusions of quartz ; ? Shap. 



[All these rocks appear to have been derived from the area immediately 

 to the northward.— P. F. K.] 



Eeported ly the Rev. C. R. Barker, S.J., B.A. 



A group of boulders from Stonyhurst College, near Whalley, Lanca- 

 shire. Stonyhnrst lies four miles to the west of Whalley Station, at a 

 height of 360 feet above O.D., on the gentle south-eastern slope of Long- 

 ridge Fell. The whole district is made up of Yoredale limestones and 

 shales beautifully exposed on the banks of the river Hodder to the 

 °°''^|^-63,st, and of the Yoredale grits which form the Longridge Fell and 

 all the neighbouring hills ; and up to a considerable height the country 

 is covered with a uniform coat of boulder clay, from which (except when 



