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and M. Horbye for Scandinavia; a similar map was in 
preparation by the Author for the Lake District. 
Mr. Binney was glad to perceive that the Author of the 
Paper did not go so far as some geologists, who saw in every 
accumulation of gravel the traces of an extinct glacier. He 
thought that the glacial theory, if not carried beyond its 
proper limits, afforded a valuable means of explaining many 
geological phsenomena. 
MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SECTION. 
February 2nd, 1860. 
Mr. W. L. Dickinson read a Paper “ On the Eclipse of 
the Sun, July 18th, 1860.” 
Eelipses of the sun and moon have long been regarded 
with peculiar interest ; not only because of their importance 
to astronomers and other scientific observers, but on account 
of the convincing proof they afford to every reflecting mind 
of the existence of the Almighty Creator, who formed the 
heavenly bodies by His word, and “ hath given them a law 
which shall not be broken,” and who, by the simplicity of the 
causes which produce the various phenomena of the universe, 
has manifested to us that “ He hath not left Himself without 
witness.” 
As the solar eclipse in July next will be of considerable 
magnitude in England, it is thought that a communication of 
the results of a calculation made for this city, and of its 
appearance on the earth generally, will not be unacceptable 
to the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society. 
The elements used in the eomputation are derived from the 
Nautical Almanac, and have been deduced from Burckhardt’s 
Lunar Tables with corrections by Professor Adams, and from 
Carlini’s Solar Tables with correction by the Astronomer 
Royal. 
