THE 



QUAETERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 5, 1855, 



Henry Conybeare, Esq., Jolin Lubbock, Esq., and R. H. Jarvis, 

 Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The following Communications were read : — 



1. On the TiLESTONES, or Downton Sandstones, in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Kington, and their Contents. By R. W. Banks, Esq. 



(Communicated by Sir Roderick I. Murchison, V.P.G.S.) 



[Plate IL] 



On a reference to the Geological Maps of the Ordnance Survey of 

 the Counties of Radnor and Hereford, it will be seen that the line of 

 junction of the Old Red Sandstone with the Ludlow rocks proceeds 

 in a north-easterly direction from the Painscastle Hills to Kington, 

 and thence skirts the range of hills which run in the direction of 

 Shobdon and Richards Castle, to Ludlow. The present notice will 

 be mainly confined to an account of the junction-beds in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Kington. 



At Kington a tongue-like portion of red sandstone runs out north- 

 wardly from the general mass to Bradnor Hill. The extreme point 

 of it is marked on the Geological Survey Map as Tilestone. The 



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