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ON THE TRIASSIC BOULDER, PEBBLE AND CLAY BEDS AT 
SUTTON COLDFIELD, NEAR BIRMINGHAM. BY J. EDMUND 
CLARK, B.A., B.Sc, F.G.S. 
The interest to Yorkshire geologists in the various 
vestiges of the Glacial Epoch, scattered throughout the 
length and breadth of our county, awakens a corresponding 
sentiment as regards beds of former times, which, from 
similarity of appearance, we may be inclined to consider of 
similar origin. The rarity of such beds must be my excuse 
for calling your attention to some deposits, not properly in- 
cluded in the sphere of our labours, but lying on the borders 
of Warwick and Stafford. As to the true nature and origin 
of these, I hope that the ensuing discussion may correct or 
supplement what few suggestions I have here ventured to 
make; my main object will be merely a descriptive account 
of their salient features and surroundings. 
Seven miles due north from Birmingham lies Sutton 
Park, through which a railway from Walsall, seven miles 
distant, running east by south past Sutton Coldfield, has 
been recently begun. The country is, to a large extent, 
wild moorland, but diversified by woods and natural and 
artificial water, forming a glorious field for the botanist, who 
may, according to the excellent monograph upon its flora by 
Mr. J. E. Bagnall, find nearly 600 species, besides endless 
varieties, within its precincts. 
In company with my friend, Mr. T. H. Waller, B.A., B.Sc, 
the Geological Secretary of the Birmingham Naturalists' 
Society, I traversed, last August, the length of the railway 
between Sutton and Walsall. This line, as I hope to show, 
well discloses the relations of the Triassic, Permian, and 
Silurian formations, as they are locally developed. 
Entering the works where the ground was being levelled 
for the Sutton station, we found a low cutting before us, 
rising eastwards, displaying ordinary Bunter Sandstone, of 
