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THE NATURALIST. 



Manchester Geological Society. — At the 

 monthly meeting of this society Mr. E. "W. 

 Binney, F.E.S., the president, in the chair; 

 the Chairman laid before the meeting 

 some reptilian remains in his possession. 

 One was the remains of a jaw of alabyrintho- 

 doid reptile, the anthracasaurus, obtained 

 from the coal at Heywood ; and the other 

 the caudal vertebra of an ichthyosaurus or 

 labjrrinthodoid, found in Staffordshire. 

 He remarked that when these were found 

 it was not fashionable to believe that rep- 

 tiles existed during the coal period, but 

 latterly they had turned up in remarkable 

 abundance. — Mr. G. C. Greenwell, one 

 of the hon. secretaries presented a fossil 

 found in the lower silurian rock near Conis- 

 ton, and a piece of greenstone, part of a 

 large boulder lying near the turnpike, in 

 the vicinity of Langdale, in the same 

 neighbourhood. — Mr. Hull, C.E., directed 

 attention to a piece of rock surface in a 

 quarry on the north side of Horwich Moor, 

 overlooking a deep valley running up from 

 Deane Mill, near Bolton, from which the 

 turf had been recently cleared away,' The 

 rock gave every appearance of having been 

 glaciated ; it was worn into the usual 

 grooves, which appeared to range east and 

 west ; and though the flutings were not 

 very distinct, the rock, which was 900 feet 

 above the sea, had all the appearance of a 

 rock in a glacial district. — Mr. Greenwell 

 then read a paper on "The Ulverstone 

 Hematite." After describing the position 

 in which the deposits of hematite iron ore 

 in the Ulverstone district are generally 

 found, he said that the comparison of the 

 deposits of Ulverstone with those of the 

 forest of Dean would be very interesting, 

 both being found in the mountain lime- 

 stone ; and should there be found to be 

 any identity between them, so as to lead 

 to the discovery of their continuity at 



Ulverstone as in the forest of Dean, any 

 doubt as to the exhaustibility of this ore 

 would be finally set at rest. Should this 

 discovery be made, hematite iron ore will 

 be found to exist in the entire mantle of 

 limestone surrounding the great Lake dis- 

 trict, which commences at Cleator, and 

 passes by Ireby, Kirkby Lonsdale, and 

 Cartmel to Ulverstone. An interesting 

 discussion followed. — The thanks of the 

 society were voted to Mr. Greenwell for his 

 paper, and the meeting adjourned. 



Queckett Microscopical Club. — 'The ordi- 

 nary monthly meeting of this society, was 

 held on the 25 th ultimo, (May) at 

 University College, Gower-street, Mr, P. 

 Le Neve Foster, Yice-President, in the 

 chair, A paper was read by Mr. H. Wigg, 

 on * Some motions in the pale blood Cor- 

 puscles." Arrangements were announced for 

 two Field excursions in the month of June. 

 Mr. James How, exhibited some sharply 

 executed photographs of Pleurosigma angu- 

 latum, taken by Captain E. Curtis, of the 

 United States Army, with one of Powell's 

 l-50th object glasses. Fourteen members 

 having been elected, and other business 

 disposed of, the meeting terminated with 

 a conversazione. 



At the monthly meeting of this society 

 held at University College, London, on the 

 22nd instant, Mr, P. Le Neve Foster, Vice- 

 President, in the chair, a paper was read 

 by Mr, N. Burgess, on The Pigment 

 cells of Plants in some of their varied 

 forms and structure," A paper was also 

 read by Mr, M, C, Cooke, on "An Improve- 

 ment in Micrometers, " A second field day 

 was announced for the 26th instant, (when 

 a most satisfactory excursion to Darenth 

 "Wood and Northfleet marshes was made, ) 

 Several new members were proposed, and 

 after some time had been passed in agree- 

 able converse and examination of objects 

 the meeting adjourned to July 27th, when 

 the Annual General Meeting will be held. 



