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Oolite on Bredon Hill was also noticed. A magnificent view was 

 obtained from the summit, and the day heing showery the far 

 distant Welsh Mountains were readily distinguished. The party 

 next visited the Roman camp and the singular Bambury Stone, sup- 

 posed to be a Druidical monument, where Mr. Lees read a paper on 

 its history. In the descent, Elmley Castle, of which the trenches 

 now only remain, and the well-restored church were inspected.- The 

 united clubs dined together at the Crown Hotel, Evesham,, at 5 o'clock. 

 — The Eev. W. Lea, President of the Worcestershire Club, exhibited 

 some charred remains of the lake-dwelling period from Switzerland, 

 and the Eev. Gr. Faussett, Oolitic fossils of the neighbourhood. Few 

 spots could be better adapted for a scientific meeting, as it abounds 

 in points of great interest to the geologist, botanist, and conchologist. 



P. B. B. 



coies-iBSi^oisriDiEi^rciE . 



THE SO-CALLED LOWER NEW RED SANDSTONE OF PLUMPTON, 

 YORKSHIRE. 



To the Editor of the Geological Magazine. 



Deak Sir, — In the "Eeader" of this week is a report of Sir 

 E. I. Murchison's Paper, read at the late meeting of the British 

 Association at Nottingham, " On the vast areas in England and 

 Wales in which no Productive Coal-beds can reasonably be looked 

 for." The learned author is made to say, " On the banks of the 

 Tees, west of Darlington, wherever the Magnesian Limestone forms 

 the upper stratum, as at Coniscliffe, it is at once underlain by unpro- 

 ductive millstone grit, which, on the west, lies upon Mountain Lime- 

 stone, the productive Coal-measures between the Millstone -grit and 

 the Permian rocks being entirely wanting, owing, he presumed, to 

 an ancient elevation of the tract during the lower Carboniferous 

 period, so that no valuable vegetable or coal matter had ever had an 

 existence in the tract extending from Barnard Castle, on the Tees, 

 to the south of Harrogate. At the latter place, the Plumpton rocks 

 and conglomerates, underlying the Magnesian Limestone, and forming 

 the base of the Permian system, are seen to repose directly on 

 unproductive Millstone-grit, which, in its turn, rests upon the great 

 Mountain Limestone region of the western dales of Yorkshire." It 

 is not my intention, at present, to discuss the point as to whether 

 profitable Coal-measures ever covered the Millstone-grits of York- 

 shire, but I do demur even to so great an authority as Sir Eoderick, 

 founder of the kingdom of Permia, as well as Siluria, claiming the 

 Plumpton rocks and conglomerates as forming the base of the 

 Permian system, and thus a portion of his first-named realm. These 

 rocks I showed in a j)aper printed by you in your Magazine a few 

 months since were most probably Upjoer Millstone -grit, or "rough 



