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well-water source. Probably the water at the bottom of the well 

 would only show whether the above-named ingredients were there. 



Mr. LoBLET adduced the fact that, at a long distance from the sea, 

 the Woodhall Spa spring of Lincolnshire contains a large amount of 

 iodine and bromine. 



Mr. Steahan said that he had been aware for some time o£ the 

 existence of these phenomena in the Newton Nottage well, and was 

 glad to have been furnished with such precise observations and so 

 clear an explanation. It would seem that a similar rise and fall of 

 water must take place in any rock-cavity communicating with the 

 flea, and that the movement must lag behind the tide in proportion 

 to the constriction of the communicating passage. He thought that 

 the trace of salinity in the water was due to the sea, although the 

 -author's analysis showed no bromine or iodine : for, in walking 

 along the shore in that neighbourhood, he had seen sea-water 

 issuing copiously from fissures and holes in the conglomerate 

 long after the retreat of the tide. He hoped that, if oppoiLunity 

 joffered, the Author would make further observations en the 

 inflnence of both spring and neap tides upon the movements in 

 -the well. 



The President also spoke. 



