MORRISON: ADDRESS. 
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who will not relapse into idleness on obtaining a secure 
position, but are likely to devote all leisure so gained to 
their work. It should therefore be a condition that such 
appointments should be open to men above the age of forty. 
I think it would be possible ' to devise a selecting body on 
which jobbery and canvassing would have little influence. 
To put a man already eminent in science above all labour 
and all anxiety for the satisfaction of material wants, so 
that he can devote his whole time to his favourite study, 
would be no small benefit to the world. If it were one of 
the conditions that he should reside at Oxford or Cam- 
bridge, it would be even a greater benefit to the university. 
ON A SECTION AT THE BARROW COLLIERIES, WORSBRO'. BY 
ARTHUR R. KELL. 
In introducing to your notice the sections of the strata sunk 
through in proving the Silkstone seam of coal, at the Barrow, 
Hoyland, and Rockingham Collieries, situate from three to four 
miles to the south of Barnsley, and about a mile apart from 
each other, I take the opportunity of thanking Mr. Arthur 
M. Chambers, and Mr. W. H. Peacock, Junr., for kindly fur- 
nishing me with a copy of the sinkings at the respective 
collieries of which they had the management, and whereby 
I have been enabled to lay down the three sections on one 
sheet, and thus the more easily point out the relative difference 
existing between each, as regards the depths and thick- 
nesses of the various strata passed through. As I am more 
intimately connected with the Barrow Collieries belonging 
to the Barrow Hematite Steel Company (Limited), I shall 
more minutely describe the sinkings there, but shall confine 
myself strictly to the geological as distinguished from the 
engineering aspects of the same, by pointing out any simi- 
larities or differences in the three sections. 
