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Elephas antiquus is also found fossil on the Rock, though not in 
this cave. The Hare, Rabbit, Fox, Badger, and a few Magot Monkeys 
(probably introduced) are all the wild animals now found on the 
Rock ; and Goats are with difficulty fed there in the hot season. 
MANcHESTER GroLoGicAaL Socrety.—At the Meeting on Febru- 
ary 28th, Mr. A. Knowles presiding, Mr. J. PLaAnt said that he 
wished to call the attention of the meeting to a serious fraud that 
has been going on for some time among the excavators at the Maccles- 
Jjield New Cemetery. The excavations had been made in gravels 
that belonged to the Drift, and a number of fragments of Shells, and 
occasionally a few nearly perfect, had been found by the workmen; 
and these had fallen into the hands of gentlemen interested in the 
geology of the locality.* Encouraged by the pecuniary results of 
their discoveries, some of the workmen had supplied spurious shells, 
obtained from their friends at Liverpool, Southport, or in Ireland ; 
and they had even robbed rockeries and garden-plots that contained 
shellwork. The shells so obtained were subjected to the action of 
fire or acid, to deprive them of their epidermis, and to bring out a 
thin coating of white lime; they were afterwards shaken in a basket 
of gravel, and this had imparted to them the necessary red tinge. 
Some of the workmen had operated on West Indian and African 
shells, specimens of which Mr. Plant produced; and, in an audacious 
attempt to manufacture a fossil, they cleverly seta Mactra stultorum 
in apiece of Ketton Oolite. ‘The shell, which had the peculiar pink 
tinge of the species, was so neatly cemented in the Oolite, that an 
ordinary geologist might have been deceived. One of the workmen. 
had said to a gentleman, who has written to Mr. Plant, ‘that they 
had made a good thing of it; they had deceived the museums of 
London, Manchester, and Liverpool, and there had been a fine set of 
people asking them for the shells.’ Such a dispersion might lead to 
very erroneous deductions as to the origin of the Drift of Macclesfield, 
and he thought it right to mention the fraud to the Society, so that 
it might be exposed. ‘The thanks of the meeting were given to Mr. 
Plant for the course he had adopted. Mr. J. AITKEN read a paper 
On certain Appearances of Glacial Action on Rock-surface near 
Clitheroe. After a brief description of the chief geological features 
of the locality, the appearances of glacial action were described as 
having been found in a channel, like the bed of a stream, on the top 
of a hill of Carboniferous. Limestone between the Ribble and the 
Pendle Hills. He considered that the channel, and the striations in 
it, had been effected by the action of moving bodies of ice, charged 
on the under surface with fragments of rocks, coming from the north 
at a time when the relative levels of the land and ocean were differ- 
ent from the present, and when the land was slowly rising from the 
water in which it was submerged.—Mr. Chatwood asked whether 
the channel might not be an old watercourse. Mr. Parker said he 
thought not, as it was on the top of a hill, and did not appear on the 
* See Grotocicat Macazinz, No. VII. p. 41. 
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