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Ordinary Meeting, December 26th, 1877. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S, President, in the Chair. 
Chester. Many years since, m 
m vol. viii., Second Series, p. 
278 of the Society’s Memoirs, a description was given ol 
some of the largest which had been then observed--one of 
them, found near Mr. Buckley’s sand delf at Collyhurst, 
reached the weight of about 5 tons. Since then a muc i 
larger specimen, estimated at nearly 20 tons, has been placed 
in the public park at Oldham. Probably many others have 
been met with and escaped my notice. 
In the past summer Mr. William Worthington, contractor, 
of this city, met me in the street and showed me what he 
termed a piece of a remarkable stone which he had met 
with in making a main sewer under Seymour-grove, Old 
Trafford. After looking, at it I said, I wish you had taken 
the stone out for me. He replied, that getting it to the 
surface would have been no easy task, as it weighed over 
50 tons. I went down to Seymour-grove to look for myself, 
and 'found plenty of the fragments of the stone, but the 
specimen itself I did not see, as it had been covered rip. 
The stone was a fine grained gritstone, which Lancashire 
borers would call a burr. It was remarkably hard, tough 
and sharp, and its outside was smoothed and scored wit i 
parallel striae as shown by the specimen exhibited to tie 
meeting. Rocks resembling it are sometimes met with in 
