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Ordinary Meeting, November 26th, 1861. 



J. P. Joule, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Joseph Sidebotham exhibited a photograph of the 

 contorted schists seen in the cliff near the South Stack 

 Lighthouse, Holyhead. 



Mr. John Parry showed some photographs of fossil woods 

 from the South Lancashire coal field. These displayed 

 beautifully the structure, even to the most minute vessels. 



A Paper was read by Mr. E. W. Binney, F.R.S., Vice- 

 President, entitled '^ Additional Observations on the Permian 

 Beds of South Lancashire." This was a continuation of two 

 previous papers read before the Society and printed in its 

 Memoirs.* Since that time the Author had made further 

 observations on the Permian strata at Heaton Norris, near 

 Stockport ; Medlock Vale, between Ashton and Manchester ; 

 Chorlton-upon-Medlock, and Ordsal, near Manchester ; and 

 Skillaw Clough and Bentley Brook, near Newburgh, in the 

 West of Lancashire. 



At Heaton Norris, in the sand delf of Mr. Howard, near 

 the railway station, the lower new red sandstone was seen 

 dipping to the south-west at an angle of 25°. This was 

 succeeded by red and variegated marls having a similar dip 

 These last named strata were overlapped by the Trias, which 

 dips to the south-west at an angle of 12°. 



* Yols. xii, and xiv. (New Series) of the Society's Memoirs. 



PaocEEDiNGS— Lit. &Phil. Socibty— No. 5.— Session 1861-62. 



