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LivERrooL Geological Society. — Oct. 23rcl, 1S60. 
The following papers were read : — 
" On Fulverites from the Red Crag of Suffolk." By Henry Diickwortli, 
Esq., F.R.G.S. and F.G.S. 
" On the Geologv of the Neighbourhood of Shelve, Shropshire." By George 
H. Morton, Esq., F.G.S. 
This paperwas illustrated by sections; also by a large and interesting collection 
of both upper and lower Silurian fossils collected in the district by the author 
of the paper and several other members of the society. The longitudinal range 
of hills present very high land to the east of Shelve. Reposing thereon aie the 
Stiper Stones, rugged hills of siliceous sandstone, dipping west-north-west, 
the summits being about one thousand six hundi-ed feet above the level of the 
sea. These are considered to represent the Lingula flags of North Wales. 
Small cavities are common in the hard sandstone, some of which Mr. Salter 
considers to show traces of Lingulte. Annelide-burrows have also been observed. 
Above these rocks, which are some three thousand feet thick, is a series of dark 
slaty strata, contaming the following fossils : — Didi/mograpsns gemiui'.s, Ogrjgia 
Poi'tlockii, jEglina binodom, Theca si/iij)lex, Cucnllela angVica, Redonia com- 
jplanata, Lingula pli'inbea ; also one or two species of Orthoceras, and several 
indistinct forms. These have been found m the lowest accessible strata, and 
may be considered the earliest fossils in the district. The Llandeilo rocks, 
above the Stiper Stones, are about fourteen thousand feet thick. The strata 
dip sixty degrees and seventy degrees, and at smaller angles. Excepting in. 
particular beds, fossils are rarely to be found ; but in several places they occur 
in profusion, such as* Bictyonema sociale, Ogyg'ia Burchii, Bellerophon pertur- 
batus, all of common occurrence in the upper Llandedo. Gbjptocrinns bamlis^ 
(McCoy,) has also been found associated with Trinudeiis Llogdii, and Ortliis 
driatula, &c., high in tlie series at Mcadon Town. Many of the Shelve fossils 
are figured m the second edition of Siluria. 
The " Corndon," the highest isolated hill in the locality, is a great outburst 
of trap rock. Beds of volcanic ashes several feet thick, are interspersed with 
strata several feet thick, containing organic remains, at Marriiigton Dingle. 
At Hope quarry, two miles from Shelve church, the upper (Silurian) Llandovery 
rock is seen, reposing unconformably upon rounded bosses of trap and Llandeilo 
rock. Near that place are high cliffs of contorted strata. The district is of 
extreme interest to geologists; for within a circular space of country some seven 
miles across, so many geological phenomena are to be studied under great 
advantages. 
Dec. 11, ISGO. 
Thomas Urquhart, Esq., presented to the "Liverpool Eree Museum," 
tlu-ough the medium of the society, a beautiful series of Devonshire fossils, 
under the name of the " Pengelly Collection," many of the specimens having 
been cut and polished in order to show their internal structure, Mr. Morton 
made some remarks upon them, and on the geographical distribution of Devonian 
fossils in Europe. 
The following paper was then read . — 
"On the Oolite beds of Yorkshire as compared with then- equivalent deposits 
in Wilts and Gloucestershire. By W. S. Horton, Esq. 
This communication was illustrated by a vertical section taken from Swindon 
to BirdHp, and compared with one of the Yorkshire coast from Eiley to "VVhitby. 
also a horizontal one from Oxford to Shortover Hill. After a short description 
of each bed, down to the cornbrash, reference was made to the extreme variation 
exhibited by the succeeding strata, which were co-ordinated as follows : — 
