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the small sketch annexed, took place on the left hand side, 

 and in the triangular form denoted by the letters E. F. G ; 

 which upon examination was found to be a faulty portion of 

 the chalk, the component parts of which had become dis- 

 integrated by the rainy summer preceding the slip. These 

 faults are frequent in the chalk, and hence, where they are 

 not observeable on first sight, the horizontal beds are per- 

 pendicularly intersected, with every apparent security, and 

 the fault first appears upon exposure. No caution can 

 therefore guard against such occurrences. 



We have received numerous letters on other " land slips'^ 

 along the coast, especially in the chalk of Western Norfolk, 

 and the sands of Kent and Dorsetshire, but we will merely 

 state that they may all be referred to the first class, and 

 therefore require no particular comment ; but in our character 

 as journalist, we have considered it a duty to dwell at 

 greater length upon those two occurrences, which have for 

 so long a time occupied the thoughts of Railway proprietors 

 and engineers. 



PROCEEDINGS OP SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER. 

 Felruary 24t?i. 1842. — James Haywood, Esq., in the chair. — Pre- 

 vious to the business of the evening, Mr. Binney informed the members 

 that Mr. Looney had delivered lectures to the working miners at Miles, 

 Platting, and Oldham, in addition to those places noticed at the former 

 meeting. Mr. Phibbs also exhibited a portion of a fossil human jaw, 

 alleged to have been found in the solid chalk near Winchester, seventy- 

 six feet from the surface, but as no satisfactory evidence had been pro- 

 duced to verify these statements, nothing further could be urged as to 

 the occurrence. 



Mr. Binney next proceeded to read a brief notice of the Geology of 

 South Australia, connected with the exhibition of some beautiful fossil 

 shells sent him by a friend at Adelaide. 



In the province of Australia, a vast marine fossil formation extends 

 from about 139*^ 15' of longitude, with an imperfectly known width 

 towards 141°, the western boundary of the province ; and from about 32° 



