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gument of Peter Dobson, a previous acquaintance with which might 

 have saved volumes of disputation on both sides of the Atlantic." 



11. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society^ Vol. I. — 

 This volume of two hundred and thirty-six pages, 8vo, is illustrated by 

 nine beautiful plates. The subjects treated of are, 



I. On some of the Objects and Uses of Geological Researches. By Dr. Black. 



II. Sketch of the Geology of Manchester and its vicinity. By Mr. E. W. 

 Binney. 



III. Observations on the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Field, with a Section. 

 By Mr. E. W. Binney. 



IV. Remarks on the Marine Shells found in the Lancashire Coal Field. By 

 Mr. E. W. Binney. 



V. On the Origin of Coal; and the Geological Conditions under which it was 

 Produced. By Mr. J. E. Bowman. 



VI. Observations on the Characters of the Fossil Trees lately discovered on the 

 line of the Bolton Railway, near Manchester. By Mr. J. E. Bowman. 



VII. On a White Fossil Powder found under a Peat Bog in Lincolnshire, com- 

 posed of the siliceous fragments of microscopic parasitical Conferva. By Mr. J. 

 E. Bowman. 



VIII. On the Fossil Fishes of the Pendleton Coal Field. By Mr. E. W. Binney. 



IX. On the Economy of raising Water from Coal Mines, on the Cornish prin- 

 ciple. By Mr. W. Fairbairn. 



Note to the same, 

 y X. Notice of Upper Silurian Rocks in the vale of Llangollen, North Wales ; 

 and of a contiguous eruption of Trap and Compact Felspar. By Mr. J. E. Bow- 

 man. 



XI. Description of some New Species of Fossil Shells, found chiefly in the Vale 

 of Todmorden, Yorkshire. By Capt. Thomas Brown. 



Description of Plates. 



Most of these memoirs we have attentively read, and all we have look- 

 ed over with care. Rarely have we found more interesting and valuable 

 matter within the same compass. The memoirs are accurate in obser- 

 vation, exact in science, sound in reasoning, elevated in moral senti- 

 ment, and dignified in style. There is in them a marked character of 

 manliness and utility as well as of science ; and Manchester, both by 

 this volume and the productions of its earlier philosophical society, as 

 well as by its deceased Henry, and by its Dalton, and the other living 

 men who cultivate useful knowledge, has redeemed itself from the 

 character of being a mere emporium of manufactures and trade. 



The Geological Society has for its head the Right Hon. Lord Francis 

 Egerton, supported by a list of officers, several of whom appear as au- 

 thors in this volume of Transactions. We observe with much regret, 

 among the dead, whom Mr. Murchison has commemorated in the annual 

 address before the Geological Society of London, the name of John 

 Eddowes Bowman, F.G.S., L.S., &c. Four of the eleven papers in this 

 volume are from his pen. They are very valuable and instructive, and 



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