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Ordinary Meeting, November 18th, 1862. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.ST, F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
It was proposed by Mr. David Mouths, and seconded by 
Mr. Joseph. Sidebotham : — That the words “ three-fourths” 
in Rule 6, Section iv., be altered to “ two thirds.” The 
motion being put to the meeting, there were 86 for it and 
38 against : it was therefore declared to be carried. 
Ordinary Meeting, December 2nd, 1862. 
J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., the President, said that in a paper 
published in Vol. X. (Second Series) of the Society’s 
Memoirs, “ On the Drift Deposits found near Blackpool,” he 
had stated, in a note at page 122, that since the paper was 
written Mr. J. F. Bateman, C.E., F.G.S., had informed him 
that in making the Hollingworth reservoir near Mottram- 
in-Longdendale, he had met with the common cockspur 
shell f Turritella terebra J in considerable abundance. During 
the past summer he had visited the locality alluded to by 
Mr. Bateman, in company with Mr. Prestwich, F.R.S. 
After going up to the uppermost part of the reservoir, which 
is one of those belonging to the Corporation of the City of 
Manchester, to the point where the goit conveys the water on 
the east side of the valley, we saw a deposit of brown sandy 
clay, or till, which had been cut through to the depth of 
between three and four feet for the purpose of forming the 
goit. This deposit contained small granite and greenstone 
pebbles, some rounded and others angular. In it lie found 
a considerable number of shells, some quite entire and others 
in fragments. He procured and showed to the meeting 
specimens of Turritella terebra, Fusus Bamjius, Purpura 
Proceedings— Lit, and Phil. Society— No. 3.— Session 1S62-3. 
