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M. Stirrup. Lancashire. 

 Fall of Roof in a Mine at Little Lever. [A huge mass of fine-grained, 

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 newspaper to be a meteorite), fell from the roof and killed a workman. In 

 discussion, Mr. Wild said this was not a boulder, but a pocket of sandstone.] 

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 Boulder and Fossil Plant from the Gannister Coal, Bacup. [Boulder 

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 On a Concretion called Acrespire. [A local name for some curious con- 

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On the Glaciation of South Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Welsh 

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Notes on the Relations of the Lincolnshire Carstone. [The author 

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British Petrography. [This valuable work gives descriptions of typical 

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