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occupy more than a few seconds. Although several hundreds 
of persons witnessed the phenomenon, I cannot find that 
any one heard any sound made by the meteor either during 
its passage or on its explosion. 
Edward Hull, B.A., F.G.S., read a paper, entitled 
“ Additional Observations on the Drift-Deposits and move 
recent Gravels around Manchester.” 
The object of this paper was to show that the drift or post- 
pliocene deposits of the borders of Lancashire, Cheshire, and 
Derbyshire, are divisible into three stages, viz. : — 
1. Upper houkler clay. 
2. Middle sand and gravel. 
3. Lower boulder clay. 
The 2 and 3 members had already been described by the 
president, Mr. E. W. Binney (“ Mem. Lit. and Phil. Soc.” 
vol. viii., 2nd series), as also a lower bed of sand and gravel, 
of whose existence as a distinct subdivision the author had 
considerable doubts, and considered it as merely accidental. 
The upper boulder clay had also been alluded to by Mr. 
Binney, but the author considered it to be quite as important 
as the lower, both in thickness and area. 
The author had found that these subdivisions rose from the 
plain, or the Valley of the Mersey towards the hills both north- 
ward in the direction of the Bolton moorlands, and eastward 
towards the Derbyshire and Cheshire hills ; and amongst 
these uplands only the upper boulder clay and the gravel made 
their appearance. These divisions of the drift had already 
been traced in an area of several hundred square miles. 
The author also described a very wide-spread river terrace 
stretching along the Valleys of the Mersey and Irwell from 
Didsbury and Manchester westward to near Warrington, and 
stretching from Altrincham to Eccles. He considered this old 
terrace of gravel to have been formed at a time when the sea 
extended further up the valley than at present, and the rivers 
covered during floods a much wider area than at present. 
