On the Lower Lias at Eafington and Kineton, and 

 on the Rhmlics in that nciyhhourhood and their fmther 

 extension in Leicestershire, JVoffinf/hamshire, Lincolnshire, 

 Yorkshire, and Cumberland. Bu the Rev. P. B. Brodie, 

 M.A., F.G.S., Vice-Prcs. of the Waricichshire Natviulists' 

 and Archccologisls' Field Club. 



lu a county like Warwicksliire where tbere ave very few 

 natural sections where the hills, such as tbey ave, are of 

 moderate height, and the undulations few aud gentle, it is 

 with great difficulty that the Geoloslst can obtain any 

 instructive and available sections, aud ibcje have been 

 hitherto afforded in the lower Lias by the large quarries at 

 Wiluicote, Stockton, and Newbold near Tai-by. Even the 

 Eallways in South Warwickshire have done butllttle to aid 

 Geological research, with the exception of the fine and well 

 known cutting at Harbury which is given below, and the less 

 extensive one, though in a higher zone at Fenny Compton. 

 The la?t cutting in the new line from Stratford to Klucton 

 has however opened up a remarkable and interesting section, 

 which deserves a careful study, and has been already examined 

 by my lamented friend the late Professor Phillips, and 

 many members of the Warwickshire Naturalists' Field Club. 

 The faulty nature of the Lias at Riueton is unusual in an 

 area which has been so little disturbed, though not unfre- 

 quent when it comes into immediate contact with older rocks, 

 as in Somersetshire and other places nearer to a focus of 

 Volcanic action; a short description therefore of the beds 

 there exposed, aud of the strata intermediate (termed 



