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fferr direction without opposing any impediment. In the last year, however, this 
tfite of repose has changed. The ice puffed up, burst everywhere, displaced itself, 
■Jfcnned soon on the surface those ice.needles and pyramids which usually announce 
iholent motion. These pbanomena were accompanied with cracUings and with a 
BM perceptible at great distaoces, which particularly increased duni^ the time ot 
w Hfong cold in the winter. The tongue-top (Zungenspitxe) of the Kings glacier 
*ni, in the past autumn, still far from the Legerwand (Leger^walJ), behind the 
Ca^hofj DOW it stands above it, forming a second wall. According to the esU- 
meof Mr.Giaroara, the whole length of the way which the ice-stream has made in 
to period cf ito moUoo, is more than 6000 feet, and still it is unwearicdly thronging 
hnni. The latter is proved by the daily rushing down of ico-masses from the Legcr- 
•ud Xeger wall), which, in the plain of the Ganipenhof, increasn alr^dy to an ice- 
Motain. The ice has not yetoccupietl the whole oi the valley which it oiled up in the 
pried of its movement from l 8 l 5 to 1817, as is still visible in the remainder of the 
Mr}ins;butit is to be feared that the glacier, by the great quickness of its advance, 
’hch according to the sisteaicnt of older men is greater than in tlic above-mentioned 
put, may extend itself still lu'jre, and carry destruction over the rmaimng meadow- 
pmadsofthe Garopcuhof There is no reason to fear here the formation of a sea 
“ in the Vemagt glacier 5 but the ice may very likely destroy the pasture-bounds 
meadows, as happened thirty years ago, or by sudden melting cause inundation. 
"U is very much to be desired that Dr. Tappeiner, who, as we know, wcupies 
bmielf closely with the study of the glaciers, and is, by the neighbourhood of his 
widence, best enabled to do so, may for the benefit of science devote attention to 
subject, and, united with Mr. Giumara, follow these curious and interesting 
pkenoinena." 
^ f Ac DUcovcrif of some new Cystideons ftom the Wenlock Shole tieoT 
Walsall. By 3. Blickman, F.G.S, 
fhe author confirms in this paper the discovery of a new species of Hypanthom- 
of Phillips («. granulatut), wliich was mentioned at Southampton, and adds 
of two additional species of the Cystideaus of Von Buch,all from the Wenlock 
ib&ieof Walsall. 
One of them appears to be a Cryptocrinites, about six lines long nnd three broad. 
The other is much larger. The author minutely describes the construction of each 
l«ies and adds illustraiive drawings. He remarks on the relation which the fossils 
to Russian forms 5 and as these latter arc said to belong to older strata than the 
ihiiiley limestones and shalo*, proposes as a matter for further determination, the true 
of the Walsall shales, which may, he conceives, possibly be found to be of older 
and in that case the Hay Head limestones would not be equivalents ot the 
hudley rocks, but of older Silurian strata. 
On the Occurrence of Marine Plants in irorcesfersAire. 
iiy James Bdckman, F.C.i). 
The object of the present paper is to lay before the Association some facts con- 
••tted with the distribution of marine plantain the county of Worcester, 
i" botanizing some time since on the banks of the Droitwich Canal, which pro- 
from the borough of Droitwich into tlic Severn near Worcester, 1 was 
'qivUed to find several patches of Glawr marifhna and drenaria manna, two plants 
* undoabiedly marine, that, as far as 1 know, they have never been elsewhere 
‘“Weil in an inland localitv. „ . . l 
Nowirt this canal is connected with the salt-works of Droitwich, a quantity of 
’fjote watvr from the brine-springs and the mother-water from the manufactones ot 
J** are constantly flowing into it: it is therefore literally a salt-water canal, and 
^ « very brackish taste along its whole line, and yielded to a recent examination 
Hgrainsof chloride of sodium (common salt) to the imperial pint; so that wc can 
little difficulty in accounting for marine plants flourishing and extending thein- 
in this situation } but it become* a curious inquiry as to how they first became 
^led ihere; and in considering this question two propositions appear to be open 
» our choice. 
