important discoveries having lately been made in this 

 district, the members examined in detail the fine sections 

 exposed in the Quartzites beyond Nuneaton, at Harts- 

 hill and other places, ending with the overlying shales at 

 Stockingford railway cutting. The presence of certain 

 Cambrian fossils discovered in these by Professor 

 Lapworth, and the general character of the sections has 

 led him to conclude that all the above rocks of great 

 thickness, formerly classed as lower Carboniferous, 

 should now be placed among the Cambrian strata, very 

 low down in the series, and leaving a wide gap between 

 the upper Carboniferous and these latter old deposits. 



