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numerous lenticular pockets which occur in the Middle- 

 Bunter sandstones, and which are filled with hematite red, 

 fine, sandy marls. The pockets nearly always contained 

 one or more pebbles of quartzite, which were stained and 

 coated with hematite. A great many of these pockets were 

 very carefully examined by Mr. de Ranee and myself, but 

 no fossils were found, although we felt, before the discovery 

 at Alderley, that they were likely to occur in such a posi- 

 tion. The Estherice now exhibited were found in similar 

 lenticular-shaped, clay-filled patches in the Lower Keuper 

 sandstones of Alderley Edge ; and the discovery is one of 

 great interest at this time ; no Estherice having previously 

 been found in the Triassic series below those occurring in 

 the Keuper marls. Mr. de Ranee has sent specimens to 

 the Geological Survey Museum in Jermyn-street and to 

 the British Museum. The specimens have been examined 

 by Professor Rupert Jones, who has written to Mr. de 

 Ranee that they are almost fac-similes of Fig. 9, PI. 12, of 

 the 'Monograph of Fossil Estheriae' {Palceon. Soc, 1862). 

 Professor Jones states that the form had not previously been 

 found in England out of the Rhaetic, in which it was dis- 

 covered by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S., at Wainlode Cliff, 

 Gloucestershire. The type form, Estheria ininuta^ found 

 high up in the Keuper marls of the Midland Counties, has 

 not occurred yet in the Lower Keuper sandstone of Britain 

 or the Continent." 



Mr. William Brockbank, F.L.S.,F.G.S., also exhibited 

 a cutting, 12 feet in length, bearing numerous tubers and 

 flowers, oi Boussingaultia baselloides, Humb. et Kunth, which 

 he had cut from a plant which he had had growing for 

 about six years, and which had only flowered in the pre- 

 ceding month, when Mr. Leo H. Grindon named it for him. 

 He had received the plant from Australia, but it was really 

 a native of South America, and was rarely seen in the 

 neighbourhood of Manchester. Mr. Charles Bailey 



