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Fig. 2. Specimen of a fruit-stalk, with imbricated cones or spikes, of Cala- 

 7)wdendron commune'i from the same locality as the last-named 

 specimen, found by the author, and now in his cabinet. Natural 

 size. 



I am indebted to Mr. J. N. Fitch for the beautiful and truthful delinea- 

 tion of the specimens. 



XVII. On the Peimian Strata of East Cheshire. 

 By E. W. BiNNEY, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 



Read November i6th, 1869. 



In communications to this Society and printed in its 

 Memoirs, most of the sections of Permian strata in the 

 counties of Lancaster and Cheshire have been given*. 

 These had been found by amateur geologists, who rambled 

 over the country at their leisure ; but when the Geological 

 Surveyors came into the district and went over every parish, 

 it was to be expected they would make some discoveries. 

 Accordingly we find, in the Memoir explaining the map of 

 the district lying between Macclesfield and Stockport, 

 Mr. E. Hull, F.R.S., describes what he terms a patch of 

 Permian strata at Torkington in the following words : — 

 '' Torkington. A curious little patch of Permian beds 

 occurs at Torkington, near Hazel Grove. The beds are 

 only to be seen in the two brook-courses ; and so far as it 

 is possible to make out their relationship to the Coal-mea- 

 sui'cs, they appear to lie in a trough formed in the lowest 

 beds of the middle series — in fact, over the Redacre mine. 

 ^' The patch appears to be about one-fourth of a mile in 

 breadth from east to west, and is bounded on both sides 

 by carboniferous grits and shales. If we follow the brook 



* Vols. xii. and xiv.. and vols. ii. and iii. Third Series, of the Society's 

 Memoirs. 



