178 Proceedings. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 13th, 1891. 



James Bottomley, B.A., D.Sc, F.C.S., Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 •of the books upon the table. 



Reference was made to the death of Mr. George 

 Waring Ormerod, who was elected a member of the 

 Society in 1841, succeeded Sir Benjamin Heywood as 

 treasurer, and continued in connection with the Society 

 until he removed from the district. Mr. De Range pointed 

 out that Mr. Ormerod published the first detailed account 

 of the Cheshire salt district in 1847, and continued to take 

 an active interest in geological work up to his death. 



A discussion on Lancashire and Cheshire boulders 

 ensued, in the course of which the formation of a boulder 

 committee to record the localities and other characteristics 

 of the boulders of the district was suggested. 



Mr. De Range then read the second part of the detailed 

 account by himself and Mr. WiLLIAM Brogkbank of the 

 geological section exposed in the Levenshulme and Fallow- 

 field railway cutting. 



Mr. W. H. Gee, B.Sg., F.C.S., read a paper by himself 

 and Mr. Arthur Harden, M.Sg., Ph.D., on two new 

 instruments for ascertaining the volumes of bodies. 



