Fourth Series. Vol. io: No. 2. 



MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL 



SOCIETY. 



1895-96. 



CONTENTS. 



Proceedings - - - pp. 93, 94, 95, 96 



Memoirs : — 



On a Sporangiferous Spike, from the Middle Coal Measures, 

 near Rochdale. With Plate. By Thomas Hick, B.A., 

 B.Sc, A.L.S., Assistant Lecturer in Botany, The Owens 

 College -----------p. 73 



Notes on the Distribution of Simethis Bicolor (Kunth). By 



James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S. - - - - p. 80 



On an Earthen Vase found in the Boulder Clay at Stockport. 



By Thomas Kay, Esq. --------p. 87 



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