yo Mr. Brockbank on 



Bees sandstone was now classed as Trias ; the line being 

 drawn at the top of the Magnesian limestone, where the 

 Permians were in future to end. 



It will thus be seen that a very important change is 

 taking place under the present Director General of the 

 Geological Survey, whereby the tripartite Permian series in 

 England is to be assimilated to the Dyas of Germany, and 

 all the labours of Binney, Harkness, and others, with whom 

 Lancashire geologists were and are in accord, are to be 

 discarded, and in spite of the facts which are clearly in 

 favour of the old arrangement. 



Hilton Beck Section. 



The rare occurrence of fossils in the Permians of England 

 makes the section at Hilton Beck, near Appleby, the more 

 interesting, as there we find plant beds of a distinctly 

 Permian "flora." Prof. Harkness was, I believe, the dis- 

 coverer of the plant bed, and he describes it in the paper 

 before mentioned. 



The Hilton shales, sandstones, and limestones are the 

 equivalents of the Magnesian limestones of the East of 

 England, and here they form the central part of the 

 Permian series of the N.W. of England. Below them lie 

 the Penrith sandstones and the breccia, or " brockram," 

 which form the basement of the Permian group in the 

 district. A similar section occurs on the Belabrook, near 

 Brough, a few miles southwards — a description of which is 

 given by Mr. Binney in our Proceedings, and later by Mr. 

 James Eccles in the Proceedings of the Manchester Geological 

 Society. A plant bed occurs in the Bela section, but the 

 plants are in a very fragmentary condition. The sections 

 may, however, be considered as similar, and this establishes 

 the general group of rocks in the Hilton and Brough 

 districts. 



Mr. Harkness states that the basement beds of the 



