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Manchester Geolocmcal Society, Febmari/ 16. — Ou this dair tlio 
niembers of this Society made an excursion to Burnley, uuder the direction of 
the President, Sir James Kay Siiuttleworth, Bart., F.G.S. After the dinner, 
tlic President described the valuable seams of coal under the Gawthorpe estate, 
and Mr. Pickup described the strata at the pit belonging to Messrs Thursby 
and Scarlett at Spa Clough. Mr. Binney drew attention to the bed of Uitio 
robustKs as being two hundred yards above the Habcrgham, or assumed Arley 
mine of Eull-cdge ; whilst at Wigan the same bed was only forty-seven yards 
above the Arley-mine. In the dining-room were displayed Mr. Wilds' ex- 
cellent collection of fossil tish-remaius from Full-edge, and shells from the 
Lower Coal-measures, as also extensive and valuable collections of fossil plants 
from the Bundey Coal-field belonging to Messrs IMiittaker andBirtwell. Mr. 
J. Mushen of Birmingham exhibited some beautiful casts of cystideans. 
Ordinari/ Monihli/ Meetiiifi, Febrnari/ 28. — A paper was read on " Over- 
winding in Coal and other Mines," by Thos. Wynne, Esq., F.G.S. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Mb. Page's Handbook or Geological Terms. — We have received a con- 
siderable number of communications upon various points of pronunciation. 
AVe have resen ed these for a time, with a view to their publication together in 
our next number. We hope, therefore, that any intended suggestions or re- 
marks may be forwarded to us early in the present month. 
Limestone Veins in Shale at the Base of the Old Bed Sand- 
stone. — Sm, — A few days since I observed some irregular vertical veins, or 
thin dykes of dark grey compact limestone, crossing a nearly horizontal bed of 
red shale in and near the local base of the Old Bed Sandstone, which rests un- 
conformably upon beds very seldom, and then but slightly calcareous. The 
shale in which they were ol^served is separated from the overlying Carbon- 
iferous Limestone by a considerable thickness of yellowisli sandstone, of which 
over two hujidred feet is exposed. As these veins do not contain fossils, and 
there is nothing else to show that the limestone was derived from organic 
sources, wliile the thickness of the intervening sandstone is against the 
supposition that it was deposited by infiltration from the Carboniferous 
Limestone. Perhaps you, or some of your other readers will say how 
an occurrence so unusual may be accounted for. — I am, etc., A. B. W., 
Templemore. 
Biblical Cheonology of Man. — Sir, — In reference to the te.rata questio 
of the age of man on the earth as comiected with the works of human art 
lately found in France, one point of consequence has, I think, been hitherto 
overlooked, viz., that we are not confined by the autliority of the Bible to 
tlie period of six thousand years for the date of man's creation upon the earth. 
Phyres Clinton, in the appendix to his " Fasti Helleuici," mentions the fact 
that most of ovir old Bible manuscripts vary much in their chi-onology, chiefly 
in the duration of Hfe assigned to the patriarchs before the Flood, and also be- 
fore the time of Abraham. So considerable is tliis variation that I believe I am 
not far wrong in stating that twelve thousand, or even twenty thousand years 
