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But, notwithstanding all these differences — whether consisting of 

 such local dismemberments or varied lithological conditions, the four 

 natural palaeozoic groups of Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, and France 

 have been perfectly assimilated, through their organic remains, to their 

 congeners in Britain ; so that, despite of great breaks in each natural 

 division of these regions, the classification by Silurian, Devonian, Car- 

 boniferous, and Permian remains is everywhere maintained. 



Lastly, let us recollect, that the very first step which the geologist 

 takes in ascending from the palaeozoic to the mesozoic formations 

 must convince him, that great and general mutations of life upon the 

 surface of the globe were not dependent on such disruptions as those 

 to which we have alluded ; for in Germany no physical dismember- 

 ment has been observed which separates the strata accumulated at 

 the close of the Permian rocks from those formed in the earliest 

 period of the Trias, ^ — the summit of the one being everywhere con- 

 formable to the base of the other ; and yet the change of life which 

 took place at that period of quiet physical transition was absolute 

 and complete. 



April 18, 1855. 



J. G. Blackburn, Esq., and the Rev. W. C. Kendall were elected 

 Fellows. 



The following Communications were read : — 



1. Notice of Fossils /rom the Keuper Sandstone of Pendock, 

 Worcestershire. By the Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S. 



The Keuper sandstone quarry from which the fossils here referred 

 to were obtained is situated in the village of Pendock, about three 

 miles from the base of the south end of the Malverns, and exactly 

 opposite the Holly Bush Pass. These sandstones are quarried to the 

 depth of 14 or 15 feet. They dip under the Upper Red Marls and 

 Lower Lias of the Berrow Hill, at an angle of from 5° to 6°. Their 

 position as regards the Bone Bed, at the base of the Lias, cannot be 

 less than from 250 to 300 feet below that deposit. 



The section in the quarry exhibits the following series : — 



ft in. 



Surface soil 2 6 



Marl 2 6 Posidonomya. 



Sandstone 7 



Marl 5 Posidonomya. 



Sandstone 6 



Marl 1 



Sandstone 5 



Osseous conglomerate. . 1^ Fish teeth and bones. 

 Marl and thin Sandstone 1 6 Posidonomya. 

 Thick Sandstone and f Un- 

 Marls \ known. 



^ j Plants. 



