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railway from Bewdley to Tenbury, and in the gorges of streams 
which traverse the Forest, good sections are to be seen ; and from 
“them it appears that the beds are those of the Upper Coal-measures, 
very rich in Plant-remains, and much fractured; and the coal-seams 
are very thin and of poor quality. Few (if any) sinkings have been 
made in the present Forest; but, from pits and trial-shafts in neigh- 
bouring parts of the same field, it would appear that the lower and 
more productive coals are wanting, and that the measures rest on 
the Old Red Sandstone; the Carboniferous Limestone and Millstone- 
grit being absent, though well represented in the Oreton beds of the 
Titterstone Clee Hill Coal-field not seven miles distant. A sinking 
at a place called Shatterford on the north-west margin of the Wyre 
Forest Ceal-field, made some few years ago, may perhaps afford a 
type of the whole field ; the undertaking was a most enterprizing 
one, but resulted in sad disappointment and loss to all concerned ; 
the depth actually attained was upwards of 450 yards, in the course 
of which eight seams of coal were met with, the aggregate thickness 
of which amounted to only about seven feet; one thin nodular bed 
of limestone was met with in the upper part of the sinking, and 
no ironstone worth mentioning. The shaft finally terminated in a 
mass of basaltic greenstone, said to be very similar to that of Kinlet 
Hill, another outlying spot in the same Field. 
The day’s proceedings consisted of an examination of the sections 
in the railway-cuttings, and concluded with dinner at Bewdley, 
after which an address was given on the passage-beds and overlying 
Carboniferous Limestone of Farlow and Oreton, and in illustration 
of the fine collection of Mr. Weaver Jones, of Cleobury Mortimer, 
from those beds adverted to in the GrotogicaL Macazine for 
August. Subsequently, Mr. Busk, F.R.S., handed round for the 
inspection of the company a variety of flint and other implements 
from Denmark, the Somme Valley, and elsewhere, and gave a very 
clear and able address on the subject of the evidences of the ‘ Anti- 
quity of Man.’ 
On August 4th the third meeting of the Club was held at the 
Stiper Stones. ‘The day’s proceedings commenced with an examina- 
tion of the Snailbeach Lead-mine, worked in the Llandeilo beds on 
the western slopes of the hill. In this mine the lead-ore is found 
in great purity and abundance; and associated with it occur sul- 
phide of zine, sulphate and carbonate of baryta, and, though rare, 
bisulphide of iron, and other minerals. On the summit of the hill 
an address was given by the Rev. J. D. La Touche, M.A., on the 
ceological features of the district, in the course of which he adverted 
to the remarkable difference and want of conformity between the 
Lingula-flags, which crop out on the eastern side of the hill, and of 
the Llandeilo beds, which formed its western slopes, and argued 
that, in accordance with Professor Ramsay’s views on ‘ Breaks,’ 
which he freely endorsed, there must be a considerable break in 
time between the two formations. ‘The singular quartzose rocks 
which form the summit of the hill, so well described by Murchison, 
and which constitute the dividing line between the Lingula and 
Llandeilo beds, he was inclined to refer to the Lingula-flags, although 
