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J. W. KiRKBT. — "On the Permian Eocks of South Yorkshire; 
and on their Palaeontological Eelations." Quar. J our. Geol. Soc., 
Vol. xvii., p. 287. 18G1. 
Describes the Permian Formation, as exhibited between Pontefract 
and Eoche Abbey. Considers the Lower Eed Sandstone of this district 
the equivalent of similar rocks in Durham, as well as the t}^ical Eoth- 
liegendes of Germany. Enumerates, or describes, 31 species of fossils 
found in this district, and compares them with those of Durham and 
other districts. 
John Phillips, M.A., F.E.S., &c., Pi'of. of Geol. at the Univ. of 
Oxford. — " Notes on the Geology of Harrogate. ' Quai*. Jour. GeoL 
Socy., Vol. xxi., p. 232. 1865. 
Describes the Yoredale Anticlinal, at Harrogate, and a section ex- 
posing the sequence of the Third Grits in a cutting of the N.E. Eailway. 
Then reverting to the " Lower Permian Sandstones and Shales," he 
says : — " Few rocks are more variable in composition, whilst regular in 
sequence, where the sequence is immediate from the Upper Coal 
Measures to the Permian Beds, as in Durham, North Staffordshire, and 
a part of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, the analog}^ of the two sets of 
strata is considerable, even if they do not exchange beds. But in this 
part of Yorkshire the Permian Beds are in no sense or manner con- 
formed to the Coal System, or any part of it." In this particular dis- 
trict the Millstone Grit probably underwent enormous waste after the 
anticlinal was formed, and before the Permian Beds were deposited. 
These Permian Beds, of coarse and fine purple sandstone, are full of the 
detritus of Millstone Grit. The author further states, it is undis- 
tinguishable from Millstone Grit in hand specimens, and that the purple 
colour sometimes fails, and that both north and south they lose their 
similitude to the Grits, and draws " a confirmation of the opinion, very 
probable on other grounds, that the Lower Permian Beds were of 
littoral aggregation, by currents operating on the waste of the neigh- 
bouring coasts." 
E. W. BiNNET, F.E.S., F.G.S., &c.— "Afew remarks on the so-called 
Lower New Eed Sandstone of Central Yorkshire." Geol. Mag., 
Feb., 1876. 
Describes sections in Millstone Grit and Permian Limestone, at 
Bramham, Plumptou, Knaresborough, and from Fountain's Abbey to 
Eipon ; and after reviewing tlie opinions of Profs. Sedgwick and 
Phillips, decides that *' All the Gritstones aj)i)ear to pass into, and ai e 
quite conformable with, the Carboniferous Eocks on which they repose," 
and that this being the ca.se, they had better be classed with the latter. 
He is further convinced that the (irits are Millstone Grit or Eougli Eock. 
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