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"both from their position and tlieir organic remains. But a deal yet remains 

 to be done with them ; they have yet to be accurately traced, searched, 

 and studied. Strata which yield, as they do, such valuable iron-ore, de- 

 mand attention and examination. 



Yours very truly, 



John H. Macalistee. 



Oxford, January \st, 1862. 



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Geologists' Association. — The ordinary monthlj^ meeting was held 

 on Monday, December 2nd, at 5 Cavendish Square. The Eev. Thomas 

 Wiltshire, M.A., E.G.S., President, in the chair. The following papers 

 were read : — " On two beds of re-deposited Crag Shells in the vicinity of 

 Yarmouth, Norfolk," by C. B. Row, Esq., E.G.S. " On a Is'ewly Dis- 

 covered Outlier of the Hempstead Strata on the Osborne Estate, Isle of 

 Wight," by Dr. E. P. Wilkins, E.G.S. " On the Exchange of Fossils 

 among the Members," by A. Bolt, Esq., A. A. 



Professor Tennant exhibited several specimens of gold recently forwarded 

 from ISTova Scotia to this country. He read extracts from a Eeport which has 

 made by Mr. Howe toLordMulgrave,the Governor of the Colony,in Septem- 

 ber last, from which it appears that the gold-discoveries made in the colony 

 in 1860 were unimportant, the gold being found in quantities so small as 

 not to afford a satisfactory return for the labour of seeking for it. The 

 exitement had accordingly subsided. Last March, however, a man acci- 

 dentally discovered a piece of gold among the pebbles at a brook ; this led 

 to further investigation, and it is now generally believed that gold in 

 abundance exists in the colony within an easy distance of means of trans- 

 port, and Mr. Howe considers that the Government will be warranted in 

 assuming that at the localities where the chief working has been hitherto 

 carried on, viz, Tangier, Lunenburg, Lawrencetown, and Lake Thomas, 

 gold-mining will be permanently established as a new branch of industry, 

 tempting to the capitalist and attractive to the emigrant. The gold is 

 found in quartz veins and in the sand on the shore. Specimens of gold 

 in the matrix, and some of the gold grains found in the sand were exhibited, 

 as also two ingots of pure gold cast from- that discovered in the above- 

 mentioned workings. 



Mr. Eickard exhibited a machine recently patented, the object of which 

 is to render peat available as fuel, to the same extent as coal, at a greatly 

 reduced price. 



Manchester Liteeaey and Philosophical Society.— iV'oyewSe/' 

 26Z/i, 1861. J. P. Joule, LL.D., President, in the chair. A Paper was 

 read by Mr, E. W. Binney, E.E.S., entitled " Additional Observations on 

 the Permian Beds of South Lancashire." This was a continuation of two 

 previous papers read before the Society. Since that time the author had 

 made further observations on the Permian strata at Heaton ISTorris, near 

 Stockport ; Medlock Yale, between Ashton and Manchester ; Chorlton- 

 upon-Medlock, and Ordsal near Manchester ; and Skillaw Clough and 

 Bentley Brook, near I^ewbuTgh, in the west of Lancashire. 



At Heaton JN'orris, in the sand delf of Mr. Howard, near the railway 

 station, the lower New Eed Sandstone was seen dipping to the south-west at 

 an angle of 25°. This was succeeded by red and variegated marls having 



