Ordinary Meeting, March 19th, 1872. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
“Additional Notes on the Lancashire Drift Deposits,” 
by E. W. Binney, F.B.S., F.G.S., President of the Society. 
In two previous papers, abstracts of which are printed 
in the Proceedings for 1870 and 1871, the author has given 
his views on the high level drift found on the hill sides, and 
the lower level beds found between Manchester and Oldham. 
He there shewed the difficulty of classing these deposits 
under Professor Hull’s three-fold division of Upper and 
Lower Tills or Boulder Clays, divided by sands and gravels. 
In the present communication he took the section of the 
railway from Liverpool to Manchester, kindly supplied to 
him by Mr. G. B. Worthington, one of our members, running 
nearly west and east for a distance of 30 miles, and shewed 
the deposits in the cuttings, and journals of shaft sinkings 
and bores; and he then followed the Lancashire and York- 
shire line from Miles Platting to near Todmorden, running 
nearly north and south for a distance of 15 miles, and 
described the deposits found in its sections, and neighbour- 
ing pits and bores, and noticed the singular termination of 
the drift near to the Rochdale Brick and Tile Works, at 
Summit, above Littleborough, in the Todmorden valley. 
Commencing with the railway at Edge Hill a considerable 
deposit of Till or Boulder Clay is found at a height of 125 
feet above the level of the sea. Then comes the rising 
ground of Olive Mount, composed of Trias, as exposed in 
the cutting, and reaching a height of 186 feet, but showing 
little traces of Till. Next succeeds a series of embankments, 
affording only one small cutting, chiefly over and through 
Till, up to Huyton, where the Trias is covered by that 
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