210 MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN BEDS 



Sir R. I. Murchison, in his Silurian System, has most 

 ably described the permian beds of Shropshire. 



Mr. Beete Jukes, in his paper on the Geology of the South 

 Staffordshire Coal Fields, printed in vol. I., part II., of the 

 Records of the School of Mines, has given much useful in- 

 formation on the permian beds of that district, and shewn that 

 they exist in Staffordshire of far greater thickness, and are of 

 much more importance than they had hitherto been supposed 

 to be. 



Professor Ramsay, at the late meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation, in Liverpool, announced that he had found evidence 

 of glacial action in the shape of scored rocks in the conglo- 

 merates of this group ; and it has been long known that beds 

 of volcanic ash have been met with in it. 



Professor King, of Queen's College, Galway, in his valu- 

 able Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England, published 

 by the Palseontographical Society, has not only carefully 

 classed and arranged what was previously known on this sub- 

 ject, but he has supplied us with much new and interesting 

 information. 



In three papers of my own, namely, a Sketch of the Geo- 

 logy of Manchester and its vicinity, published in the first 

 volume of the Transactions of the Manchester Geological 

 Society ; a Report on the Excavation made at the junction 

 of the lower new red sandstone with the coal measures at 

 CoUyhurst, near Manchester, published in the thirteenth 

 Report of the Meetings of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science ; and on the relation of the new red 

 sandstone to the carboniferous strata, published in volume II. 

 of the Quarterly Journal of the London Geological Society, 

 some further information has been given to the public . 



Notwithstanding all that has been published on the subject, 

 however, little can be said to be known of the permian beds 

 of the north-west of England; therefore, in giving to the 



