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horizons of the Westphalian Series : the Upper Coal-measures, the 

 Transition Measures, and the Middle Coal-measures; the Lower Coal- 

 measures are found to be absent. 



The fossil flora is described in detail, and a brief account is given 

 of the freshwater and marine faunas of the Middle Coal-measures. 

 The Carboniferous rocks of Warwickshire are correlated with those 

 of the other coal-fields of the Midland province, and it can thus be 

 demonstrated that there is a marked southerly attenuation and overlap 

 of each of the subdivisions of the Carboniferous System. 



Some account of the Permian and Trias is given, in order to show 

 the unconformable relationship of the Permian to the Carboniferous 

 on the one hand, and that of the Trias to the whole of the Palaeozoic 

 rocks of the district on the other. 



2. " On the Discovery of a Fossil-bearing Horizon in the 

 Permian Hocks of Hamstead, near Birmingham." By Walter Henry 

 Hardaker, M.Sc. (Communicated by Professor Charles Lapworth, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.) 



Some quarries in the Permian rocks in the neighbourhood of 

 Hamstead, near Birmingham, have afforded to the author an 

 interesting series of fossils. These consist chiefly of the impressions 

 of plants, and of the footprints of amphibia assignable to several species. 



The quarries from which the fossils have been obtained occur 

 in that broad band of strata which is coloured upon the Geological 

 Survey map as Permian, and fringes the eastern side of the South 

 Staffordshire Coal-field. 



The author describes and illustrates in detail the group (and sub- 

 groups) in which the fossil occur, and shows that the group as 

 a whole belongs in its lower part to the Midland Middle Permian 

 (or Calcareous Conglomerate and Sandstone) Division of Mr. Wickham 

 King, and in its upper part to his Upper Permian (or Breccia and 

 Sandstone) Division. 



Most of the plants and animal footprints discovered belong 

 apparently to recognizable forms which have been long known to 

 occur in the Rothliegende (or typical Lower Permian) of Germany, 

 and they have little or no resemblance to those of the undisputed 

 Upper Carboniferous of any known area ; and the conclusion is drawn 

 that these fossil-bearing Hamstead strata must in future be regarded 

 as of Bothliegende or true Lower Permian age. 



On AVednesday, June 26, 1912, a Conversazione, at which about 

 four hundred ladies and gentlemen were present, was held in the 

 Society's Apartments, from 9 to 11.30 p.m. In the course of the 

 evening, two lectures, illustrated by lantern-slides, were given ; one 

 on " Tin-Mining in the Federated Malay States", by J. B. Scrivener, 

 M.A., F.G.S., and the other on " Palaeolithic Paintings in the 

 Caverns of Northern Spain", by Dr. A. S. Woodward, F.R.S., 

 Sec.G.S. Many interesting exhibits were shown by various Fellows 

 of the Society. 



The next meeting of the Society will be held on Wednesday, 

 :^rovember 6, 1912. 



