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the house did so. They do not seem to have been much 
alarmed, but two wives of married servants, who were alone 
in their own houses with young children, were so much 
frightened that they had not recovered themselves an hour 
afterwards. This seems more in accordance with what is 
stated in regard to Burnley than with your own observa- 
tion at Crumpsall. My house, as you know, stands three 
miles north of Manchester, on the old road to Bury. It is 
situated just at the junction of a bed of clay with a large 
extent of sand, and in fact the house stands partly upon 
clay and partly upon sand. There is red rock near the 
surface about 200 yards north-east of the house/' 
The earthquake shock was also felt by Mr. Lowe, at his 
offices in Lever-street ; by Dr. Crompton, at his house, near 
Fern Acre, Cheetham Hill Road; and by Dr. Schunck, F.R.S., 
in his laboratory, at Oaklands, Kersal. 
Mr. Kipping stated that no unusual noise was heard, nor 
shock or vibration felt, at his house in Kersal Clough. 
The Rev. Brooke Herford said that some friends of his 
who were waiting for a train, at the Handforth Railway 
Station, rushed out of the waiting room, under the impres- 
sion that the noise and vibration proceeded from a train 
coming into the station. This he regarded as good evidence 
that the shock of earthquake was really accompanied by a 
considerable noise. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., gave an account of 
the present state of knowledge in reference to the structure 
of the gizzards and teeth of the Rotifera. After pointing 
out the discrepant accounts given by various writers on the 
