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into two parts, the author traced from Lincoln's Hill to Windvvill 

 Farm, but he noticed the limestone only at the extremities of the 

 ridge, it being elsewhere covered by the coal-measures. The ridge 

 varies in breadth from a quarter to half a mile. On the north side the 

 coal-measures abut against it, but on the south side they incline 

 with the ridge at an angle of 4-0° or 50°. 



To the south of the ridge are several faults which the author de- 

 scribes in detail, but from their complicated character it is impos- 

 sible to convey a clear notion of their nature without the assistance 

 of ground plans. 



The author concludes his memoir with some observations on the 

 fossils he procured principally from the ironstone. Of 18 genera 

 of shells which he enumerates, 12 are marine. The lower laj'ers of 

 the ironstone nodules contain, in general, the greatest number of 

 shells, and the upper the greatest number of plants ; but the bed 

 called the "Chance-penny ironstone," the highest wrought, contains 

 the greatest abundance of a species of Productus. The most re- 

 markable fossils obtained by the author, are the remains of Trilobites 

 hitherto undescribed. He procured them from a bed of ironstone 

 in the centre of the coal-measures. He notices also a Coleopterous 

 insect, and another apparently belonging to the genus Aranea, in 

 the possession of Mr. Antice of Madeley, and v/hich were obtained 

 from ironstone nodules, 



A paper was then read, entitled, '' Notes on the Forest of Wyre 

 Coal-field," by the Rev. Thomas England, F.G.S. 



The district, described in this memoir, is bounded on the east by 

 the Severn, on the north by the coal-field of Coalbrookdale, on the 

 west by the Rea and the Hopton to their junction with the Teme, 

 and on the south by the latter river and the Abberley Hills. The 

 superficial transported matter, the author states, is confined chiefly 

 to elevated spors and hill-tops. The gravel consists of pebbles of 

 quartz, trap, slate, hornstone, granite, porphyry, limestone and 

 hard grits ; and near Chelmarsh church is a boulder of grey granite 

 weighing about two tons. 



The next deposit described is the new red sandstone, which the 

 author states consists of only the lower beds of the formation im- 

 mediately covering the coal. He says that it forms majestic rocks 

 on each side of the Severn, south of Bevvdley, and that between 

 Blackston Hermitage and Kidderminster it appears to rise from be- 

 neath the forest coa! strata. At Winterdine the sandstone is stated 

 to contain beds of conglomerate. From the Borle brook, near Higle}', 

 the formation is said to constitute a long north-west range of high 

 land through Chelmarsh and east of Chetton, bending north-east to 

 Ta.sley. It consists of beds of white and grey sandstone sometimes 

 spotted black and brown, of brown clay and loamstone, and red 

 sandstone. The true nature of this ridge, it is stated, may be plainly 

 seen in rising from the Borle brook to Higley church, and its internal 

 structure parti v examined along the Bridgenorth road. To the south 

 of Cardington, both banks of the Severn are said to be capped 

 with the new red sandstone, and the coal series to appear half 



