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Permission to visit their estates is kindly granted by Lord Bolton and other 

 landowners; and Mr. J- vSmurthwaitc will allow members to visit his bear.tiful 



place, the Temple Grounds. 



GEOLOGY. — The Geological section will be officially represented by its 



President, Mr. S. Chadwick, F.G.S., and its Secretaries, Rev. W. Lower Carter. 

 M.A., F.G.S., and Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. 



Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., writes that the Geological Survey 

 Memoir of the country round Richmond has not yet been published, but the 

 following notes have kindly been furnished by Mr. Wm. Gunn, who surveyed the 

 district: — 'In the two or three miles of country to the north of Richmond, between 

 Richmond and the Gilling Valley, there is a fairly typical section of nearly 

 the whole of Prof. Phillips' Yoredalc Series. There are numerous- quarries just 

 north of Richmond in the Red Beds Limestone, which yields many bracliiopods- 

 and iish teeth. These Red Beds lie above the Yoredales of Prof. Phillips. The 

 Main Limestone, the uppermost bed of Prof. Phillips' Yoredales, crops out 

 just north of the Race Course, and, the beds having a general southerly dip, nearly 

 all the limestones and sandstones of the series can be seen to outcrop one 

 after another, forming a set of escarjiments overlooking the Gilling Valley. The 

 same beds come on to the north of Gilling but with a northerly dip, so that most of 

 the same series is there seen over again, but not so plainly. The (^atherley Mom- 

 Grit used to be supposed Millstone Grit, and is so mapped by Phillips, but this is 

 a mistake. It belongs to the so-called 27 Fathom Grit wliich lies below the 

 Underset Limestone, ' A fault runs through the town of Richmond in a N.E. and 



S.W. direction which repeats the Main Lime- 

 stone in the river opposite the PViary. On the 

 line of this fault, south of the Swale, are some 

 old workings, said to have been copi^er mines, 

 and there are old copper and lead workings 

 near the town on the north side.' 



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Shales and Sandstones 

 C7^o".v Lh)iestonc and Chert 

 Ten J'^at/iojn Grit 



Shales ' 



Red Beds (Siliceous LiniesLone 



and Shale) 

 Tilack Hcds and Main Chert 



Main Limestone 



Sandstone and Shale 

 Unukkset Limestone S: Ciiekt 



Sandstone and Shale 

 Third Set LiDiestone 



Srndstone and Shale 

 Pourfh Set lAuiestone 

 Sandstone and Shale 

 "^ Fifth Set Lijnestone 



The general sticcession of the hcds under 

 inspection is given in the margin. The Simon- 

 stone Limestone n,nd Hardraw Scar Limestone, 

 which appear higher up S waled ale and iri 

 Wensleydalc and complete the Yoredale Scries, 

 are not seen in the neighbourhood of Richmond. 



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