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THE GEOLOGIST. 
Trent and Ouse, are found great quantities of large timber 
trees^ consisting of oak, yew, and pine. None of these 
trees could possibly have grown on the low and swampy 
positions in which they are now discovered; and they e\T.- 
dently seem to prove, that the land on which they now lie, 
and no doubt formerly grew, has undergone a subsidence ; 
or else that the beds of the rivers beforenamed have been 
raised. — Mr. Binney considered, that the thin beds of peat 
found at Clammer Clough and Cheetham, both of which are 
covered with deposits of clay, are of a different age and 
character to those he had above alluded to. — The Chairman 
stated, that he had been informed, by parties resident near 
Chat Moss, that a place on the bog, called the Ringing-holes, 
had been proved by sounding to be upwards of 100 yards in 
depth. 
DUDLEY AND MIDLAND COUNTIES GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY-— 
WOLVERHAMPTON BRANCH. 
At the First Annual General Meeting, held on January 23, 
1843, Rev. Mr. Lister, V. P., in the Chair. The following 
Report was submitted. 
In presenting to the Members the first Annual Report 
of the Wolverhampton Branch of the Dudley and Midland 
Geological Society, your Committee have a most gratify- 
ing task, inasmuch as the present condition and prospects 
of the Society far exceed their most sanguine expectations, 
and afford evidence of the increasing interest taken in the 
science of Geology. They feel assured that the taste 
which has been created among the members will be in- 
creased by a more familiar intercourse with the mighty 
monuments of by-gone ages, exhibited in the varied strata 
