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Ordinary Meeting, October Gtli, I860. 
E. W. Kinney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Bartholomew Stretton was elected an Ordinary 
Member of the Society. 
It. B. Clifton, M.A., F.R.A.S., Professor of Natural 
Philosophy, Owens College, was elected a member of the 
Council. 
Mr. Platt exhibited some tine specimens of rock salt, from 
a boring at Middlesborough. The following are records of the 
results of this and two other borings, executed by Messrs. 
Mather and Platt. 
Middlesborough bore hole, executed for Messrs. Bolckaw 
and Vaughan; commenced January 4th, 1862. 
Well, 180 feet deep, consisting of made ground, 
river mud, sand, red marl, red sandstone, with Feet _ In> 
occasional nodules of gypsum, to a depth of. . . . 127 0 
Fibrous gypsum 6 0 
Brown shale 1 0 
Red sandstone 12 0 
Blue post stone 3 0 
Red sandstone 31 0 
Total of well «... 130 0 
After commencing to bore they went through a 
pretty homogeneous bed of red sandstone, occa- 
sionally varied with white or yelloiv veins and 
thin beds of red marl, to a depth of 588 4 
Red marl 19 0 
Red sandstone, with occasional beds of red marl ... 234 8 
Red sandstone, with nodules of gypsum 53 0 
Fine red sandstone and marl 10 0 
Ditto ditto 97 0 
PnocKEDiNGs— Lit. & Phil. Society— No. 3. —Session, 1863-64. 
