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2. "The Breccias of Cheese Bay and Yellow Conglomerates of 

 "Weak Law." (Illustrated by lantern slides, specimens, and 

 microscopic sections.) By T. Cuthbert Day, F.C.S. 



The author describes some peculiar breccias to be found in the 

 district of Cheese Bay, near Guilane, associated with the intrusive 

 Monchiquite Basalt. From a study of some new exposures of these 

 breccias, lately discovered, he concludes that they are contemporaneous 

 with the intrusion itself, and are the results of movements of the 

 igneous magma, constituting a tinal phase of the intrusion. He 

 therefore names them "Intrusion Breccias" in order to distinguish 

 them from breccias arising from faulting or ordinary earth 

 movements. 



The author also applies the experience gained in the study of the 

 above breccias to the interpretation of a peculiar exposure of rock 

 on the shore at Weak Law, near North Berwick, generally regarded 

 as a conglomerate, and shows that this large mass of material, nearly 

 300 yards in length and above 50 yards across at the widest part, 

 is in reality of an intrusive nature, and is very similar in its character 

 to the intrusion breccias of Cheese Bay. 



It is also suggested that the numerous scattered exposures of 

 Monchiquite Basalt are really connected below the surface, and 

 represent upper parts of a great intrusive mass or batholith rather 

 than parts of an ordinary intrusive sill. 



IV. — Liverpool Geological Society. 



At a meeting of the above Society held on January 12, Mr. J. W. 

 Dunn, F.G.S., read a paper on " Skiddaw and the Hocks of 

 Barrowdale", in which he gave a comprehensive account of the two 

 lower divisions of the Ordovician rocks of the Lake District. A full 

 description was included of the Long Close Dyke in the Skiddaw 

 slates at the south-east end of Lake Bassenthwaite, and of the 

 contact metamorphism induced by it, which Mr. Dunn had studied 

 in detail and compared with the larger and well-known effects of 

 the granite intrusion. The dyke is about 12 feet wide and 

 consists of a much decomposed mica- porphy rite or diabase. The total 

 width of altered rock, including the dyke, is about 30 feet. The paper 

 was well illustrated with photomicrographs and lantern slides, and 

 a large and representative collection of Lake District rocks. 



OBITUAET. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. Arthur Roope Hunt, M.A. 

 (Cantab.), F.L.S., F.G.S. , which occurred at his residence, 

 " Southwood," Torquay, on December 19, 1914, at the age of 

 71 years. We hope to give a notice of this well-known Devonshire 

 geologist, who has been for the past twenty-five years a frequent 

 contributor to the pages of the Geological Magazine. 



