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REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE. 

 Compiled by Sydney M. Thompson, Hon. Sec. 



For some time past the Club having considered it desirable to 

 conduct some investigations into the glacial geology of its 

 district, on receiving a request from Percy F. Kendall, F.G.S., 

 Sec. to the Erratic Blocks Committee of the British Association, 

 for information as to local glacial phenomena, on the 9th of 

 August, 1893, it was decided to appoint a Geological Committee 

 to carry on these inquiries, which was ultimately constituted 

 as follows : — W. Swanston, President ; Miss M. K. Andrews, 

 F. J. Bigger, J. O. Campbell, W. Gray, A. P. Hoskins, S. A. 

 Stewart, P. Stewart, R. 1. Welch, and J. Wright, with Miss S. 

 M. Thompson as Hon. Sec. 



The plan of operations was adapted from the Handbook 

 published by the Glacialists' Association,* and the definition oi 

 an erratic accepted was that adopted by the Association, namely : 

 " A boulder may be considered as an erratic, irrespective of the 

 distance it may have travelled, provided it does not rest ovei 

 its parent formation." The enquiries being especially concerned 

 with boulders found in glacial deposits and their distribution, it 

 was decided to form a type collection of such stones, and, if 

 necessary, to obtain the assistance of experts in naming them 

 and ascertaining their place of origin. The exact locality of the 

 deposits investigated, the height above the sea, nature of the 

 surrounding landscape, compass direction of the section, its 

 description, and the long axis of included stones, percentages of 

 erratics, and of various kinds of rocks amongst them, were 

 recorded, and measurements of the larger erratics were obtained. 

 Lists of shells and microzoa found were compiled. Photographs 

 and sketches of the sections were also frequently taken. 



S. A. Stewart undertook to examine any shells that might be 



* " Hints for the Guidance of Observers of Glacial Geology." By P. F. Kendall, 

 F.G.S. To be obtained from the Assistant Secretary of the Glacialists' Association, 

 19 Seaton Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool. One Shilling. 



