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not only to the initiated, but to more humble members of society, 

 such as the boys employed on the Levenshulme railway con- 

 tract, who were invaluable in collecting fossils from the Permians, 

 to whom he gave a tea in his gardens to their infinite delight. 

 Each boy collected his store of fossils day by day, and a cart 

 was sent down every week for them ; but the results w^ere not 

 so satisfactory as Mr. Brockbank and the writer had anticipated, 

 through a collector with a carpet bag playing the part of the 

 white bears in the Arctic cachees. 



In following up a scientific matter to its source, Mr. Brock- 

 bank neither studied his time, or inconvenience, or money, when, 

 with the business aptitude that characterized him, he saw there 

 was an obvious chance of a successful result. He joined the 

 Society in 1855. He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society, 

 the Linnean Society, and the Glacialists' Association, of which 

 latter he was a Vice-President. His death took place on 

 September 18th, 1896. C. E. De R. 



List of Papers read before the Society: — 



[Note on Titanium from Iron Furnaces.] Proceedings^ i. (1859), p. 99. 

 [Notes on the Bessemer Process of manufacturing Steel.] Proceedings^ ii. 



(1861), pp. 146 and 153. 

 On the Discovery of the Bones of the Mammoth {Elephas primigenius) in a 



Fissure of the Carboniferous Limestone at Waterhouses, near 



I^ek. Proceedings, iv. (1864), pp. 46-50. 

 Notes on a Section of Chat Moss, near Astley Station. Proceedings^ v. (1866), 



pp. 91-95. 

 [On Haematite Iron Deposits.] Proceedings, vii. (1867), pp. 59-61. 

 The Haematite Iron Ore Deposits of Whitehaven ; Notes on the Aldby 



Limestone, Cleator Moor. Proceedings, viii. (1868), pp. 51-56. 

 Notes on the Effects of Cold upon the Strength of Iron. Proceedings^ 



X. (1871), pp 77-86. 

 [Notes on a Specimen of Mineral Wool, and on a Mode of Utilising Slag.] 



Proceedings, xi. (1872), pp. 78-79. 

 Notes on supposed Glacial Action in the De[)osition of Hematite Iron Ores 



in the P'urness District. Proceedings, xii. (1873), PP- 58-65. 

 [Note on Specimens of Iron manufactured by the old Bohemian process 



from Hematite Ores in the South of Europe.] Proceedings, xii. 



(1873), pp. 72-73. 

 Notes on the Victoria Cave, Settle. Proceedinos, xii. (1873), PP* 95-^03' 



