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THE GEOLOGIST. 
Mr. Whitaker said about a few hundred yards further on, in the same 
valley, in sinking a foundation for a chimney some years ago, the workmen 
found several deer's horns and some bones, but they have probably been 
destroyed, 
2. Mr. Binney read a translation of part of Dr. Geinitz's work ' On the 
Magnesian Limestone and Lower Red Sandstone,' by J. W. Kirkby, Esq., 
and himself. 
Appended to the translation are the following Tables by Mr. Kirkby and 
Mr. Binney : — 
Tabular View of the Permian Strata of the North-East of England. 
SUBDIVISIONS. 
DURHAM. 
SOUTH YORKSHIRE. 
Buiiter Schiefer. 
Red Sandstone overlying the 
Magnesian Limestone in the S.E. 
part of the countv? — (Howse.) 
Thickness,— 50 ft. ? 
Red Sandstone and Marl near 
Doncaster and Tickhill — (Geol. 
Sm-vey.) 
Thickness— 50 ft. ? 
Upper 
Limestone. 
Yelloxo and Oolitic Limestone 
of Roker and Hartlepool; and 
Botryoidal, Concretionary, and 
Crystalline Limestone of Half- 
way House, Building Hill, Ful- 
well and Cleadon Hills, and coast 
from "VN^hitburn to Marsden. 
Thickness — 250 ft. 
Brotherton Limestone of Bro- 
therton, Kuottingley, AVomers- 
ley, Pickburu, Loversal, Wad- 
worth, Tickhill, etc. 
Thickness— 120 ft. 
Middle 
Limestone. 
Shell Limestone of Timstall 
and Humbleton Hill, Eyhope, 
Dalton-le-Dale, Hylton Castle, 
Clack's Heugh, etc. ; and Con- 
cretionary or Pseudo-hrecciated 
Limestone of Galley's Gill, Tron 
Rocks, coast between Ryhope and 
Hawthorne Hive, etc. 
Thickness— 150? 
Small-grained Dolomite of 
Lound Hill, Yale of AVent, Brods- 
w^orth, Cusworth, Levit Hagg, 
"Warmsworth, Roche Abbey, etc. 
Tliickness— 200 ft. 
Lower 
Limestone. 
Limestone of Pallion, Millfield, 
Peusher, Newbottle, Honghtou- 
le-Spring, ]Moorsley, Pittington, 
Sherburu, Ferry Hill, Summer- 
house, etc. 
Thickness— 200 ft. 
Limestone of Pontefract, Em- 
sall, Wentbridge, Hampole, Brods- 
worth, Barnsbro' Cliff, Cadeby, 
Conisborough, etc. 
Thickness— 120 ft. 
Red, Yellow, and Variegated 
Sandstones of Pontefract, Hickle- 
toD, Wentbridge, Cadeby, etc. 
Thickness— 100 ft. ? 
^Marl Siate. 
Marl Slate of Clack's Heugh, 
Down HiU, Midderidge, Perry 
Hill, etc. 
Thickness— 10 ft. 
Lower 
Red Sandstone. 
Incoherent and Red Sand- 
stone of Clack's Heugh, Hylton 
Castle, Tynemonth Cliff, Downs' 
Quarry, Sherburn, etc. 
Thickness— 100 ft. 
_ . . „ 
Total Uicl-ness— 760 ft. 
Total tJnckness—h^O ft. 
