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AT Liverpool the annual associated soirée of the Literary, Scientific, and Art Societies, eighteen in number, of which twelve are scientific, held at St. George's Hall on the 31st, was a marked success, and will tend much not only to foster scientific tastes in this district, but inculcate an element of scientific cooperation, in the various institutions of the town, that will be of the highest practical value. The fourteenth Winter Course of Free Lectures for the People, given at the Free Library and Museum, by order of the Corporation, commenced on the 6th of last month. Amongst the forty-one lectures announced, thirteen are on scientific subjects, given by the Rev. W. H. Dallinger, Mr. Moore (Curator), Mr. De Ranee, Rev. H. H. Higgins, and others. The Liverpool Geological Society is also doing good work; a valuable paper on the carboniferous limestone of Denbighshire was lately read by Mr. Morton, and a short but important mineralogical paper was given by the President, Mr. Semmons. Geological knowledge has been increased by a boring at Bootle, sunk to determine the water-bearing properties of the new red sandstone at great depths, by Messrs. Mather and Platt, for the Liverpool Corporation, who were urged to this course by Alderman Bennett. The boring has reached a depth of 1,300 feet, is 25 inches in diameter, is filled with water up to a height of 50 feet from the surface, and, according to Messrs. De Ranee and Morton, has proved the pebble beds of the Bunter to reach the extraordinary thickness of 1,200 feet, and the existence of the lower mottled sandstone beneath. The pumps not yet being fixed, it is impossible to judge how far the well will add to the supply of 6,000,000 gallons a day at present pumped from the corporation wells.
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Science in Lancashire and Cheshire . Nature 19, 322–323 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019322a0
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