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where the strata are much broken, and there has heen a passage for water 

 to force its way through them, this is not an unusual occurrence. A 

 portion of the rock here also contains deep impressions of some kinds of 

 fruit which have the effect of causing it to split into laminae or flags. The 

 stone obtained in this quarry is only fit for paving purposes. The strata 

 at the Guiseley end of the Esholt railway tunnel are composed of shales 

 and coal seams, whilst at the Bradford end (a distance af about a quarter 

 of a mile only) they consist of Haslingdon flagstones, and dip towards the 

 entrance of the tunnel. The top of the tunnel is capped with rough rock 

 or millstone grit, beneath which is the Haslingdon flagstone. A search 

 amongst the material taken out in the excavation of this tunnel yielded 

 several fair specimens of Goniatites. It might be worthy of remark here, 

 that when the tunnel was being excavated, a large quantity of ice- 

 scratched stones were observed, some of them having apparently 

 travelled a great distance. In the railway between Guiseley and Shipley, 

 the 36yds. band coal four inches thick was observed. — H. Pollard, Hon. 

 Sec. — Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society. — The monthly meeting on the 

 21st June proved more than usually interesting, on account of the 

 numerous and interesting species of mosses laid upon the table, for the 

 most part recently collected at Malham and Littondale, in Yorkshire, by 

 Mr. Cunliffe. Amongst them were fine fruiting examples of Cinclidium 

 stygium, which Mr. Cunliffe distributed. There were also recently 

 collected specimens from that botanical paradise. Miller's Dale, which 

 would be too numerous to name in a brief report, but amongst them may 

 be mentioned the minute Seligeria pusilla and S. acntifolia, and 

 Gymnostomum tortile, G. microstomum, and Anomodon viticulosus, all in 

 fruiting condition. But the rarest and most interesting species was the 

 Seligeria tristicha, which had been discovered growing there in May by 

 Mr. Cunliffe, this being only the second recorded locality in England. 

 Tho specimens exhibited by Mr. Cvmliffe were in fine condition, and 

 mounted for microscopic examination in his well-known style ; and the 

 members present congratulated him on finding so rare a moss in a 

 district so well worked as Miller's Dale. Mr. Percival reported that the 

 ground where he and the honorary secretary some few years ago had 

 found fruiting specimens of the very rare British moss Bi yum neodamense, 

 at Southport, had now become quite grown over with other species, and 

 this moss was nearly extinct. Mr. Percival, however, brought away 

 specimens of Mnium affine, var. elodes, growing near the same place. 

 Mr. John Whitehead, the late president of the Society, having resigned, 

 it was suggested by Mr. Thomas Brittain, vice- president (who was in the 

 chain) that Dr. B. Carrington should be invited to take the office of 

 president. This was cordially accepted by Dr. Carrington, who was 

 unanmously elected accordingly, and read from the chair an interesting 

 memoir of the life of Mr. Coe F. Austin, the eminent American bryolo- 



