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MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
December 8th, 1873. 
Charles Bailey, Esq., Vice-President of the Section, in 
the Chair. 
Mr. R D. Darbishire, F.G.S., exhibited a collection of 
shells and fragments of shells, lent for this purpose by Miss 
M. H. Earington, of Worden Hall. The collection was in 
itself one of remarkable extent and beauty, as a representa- 
tive of the fossil fauna of the Drift, and had lately been the 
subject of a Note read at a meeting of the Geological Society 
of London. Tlie specimens were found in the Worden 
gravel pit near the Leyland Station, near Chorley, in a bed 
of shingle 240 feet above the sea level, shewed 42 species. 
Amongst these one, Fusus craticulatus, was decidedly Arctic, 
and the only form of that character. Cytherea chione, and 
Cardium rusticum were Southern, as was also Mactra 
glauca. These latter connected the list with that of the 
Macclesfield Cemetery beds. Fusus propinquus and Fusus 
antiquus, var. contrarius, which latter appeared here for the 
first time in English lists of this date, are found in the 
so-called manure gravels of Wexford. 
He also exhibited similar collections made by J. Millard 
Reade, Esq., F.G.S., in the cuttings of the railway near Edge- 
hill, and in cuttings in Toxteth park, both near Liverpool, 
89 species at the former and 29 at the latter place. The 
Edgehill list includes, like the Leyland list, Saxicava norve- 
gica, Cytherea chione, and Cardium rusticum. 
The two latter species occurred in comparison with other 
species ‘"frequently”; and had now been noted at Edgehill 
