27 
About 
From, surface to Stanley Shale Coal 80 yards 
Further to Stanley Main Coal^^^ 18 
Further to Warrenhouse Coal».^ — ^ — 88 
Further to Lofthouse or Haigh Moor Coal 92 
Further to Fish Coal , 80 
Further to Forty Yards Coal 20 
Further to Yard Coal ^ 46 
Further to Middlcton Main Coal 32 
Further to Eleven Yards CoaL , 12 
Further to Beeston — . 84 
Yards 552 
REPORT ON GEOLOGICAL SECTIONS. 
Mr. Morton then made a verbal report of the proceedings 
and suggestions of a Sub-Committee appointed to consider 
the best means of constructing a Geological Section on the 
eastern side of the Penine Chain, and to prepare a plan of 
operations in conjunction with the Manchester Geological 
Society, the members of which at their last annual meeting 
having resolved to continue the section forward to the west- 
ward across the Lancashire coal-field. Mr. Morton dwelt on 
the general and local importance of such sections. There 
were no accurate sections on a large scale across the island 
in this latitude, and he considered that the completion of 
even one section across Yorkshire and Lancashire would 
throw so much light upon the structure and stratification of 
the two coal-fields, and of the ridge of hills which divides 
them, that great benefit would be conferred on the geological 
public generally, and on the members of these two local 
societies in particular. Three difi'erent lines of section had 
been proposed, but it was desirable to concentrate all the 
energies of the Society upon one of th em. Such a section 
should be carried in a north-easterly d irection, this being the 
line of greatest dip of the strata ; and its latitude should 
not be further north than Leeds, nor further south than 
Sheffield ; otherwise it would be beyond the limits of the 
Yorkshire coal-field altogether. Perhaps the best line 
would be an intermediate one ; that is, in the latitude of 
Bamsley, for the stratification of this coal-field is probably 
more fully developed between Penistone and Goole than in 
any other direction. The information which this section 
should contain ought to be local and in detail, not as 
geological sections too often are — composed of vague 
generalities and a mixture of half fact and half fiction. The 
surface of the country should be carefully levelled and laid 
