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Ordinary Meeting, November 16th, 1869. 
J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the Chair, 
Professor Osborne Reynolds, B.A., of Owens College, was 
elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 
“ On the Permian Strata of East Cheshire,” by E. W. 
Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
In communications to this Society, and printed in its 
Memoirs, most of the sections of permian strata in the 
counties of Lancashire and Cheshire were given. These 
had been found by amateur geologists, who rambled over 
the country at their leisure, but when the Geological 
Survey came into the district, and went over every parish, 
it was to be expected they would make some discoveries. 
Accordingly we find in the Memoir explaining the map of 
the district lying between Macclesfield and Stockport, Mr. 
E. Hull, F.R.S., describes what he terms a patch of permian 
strata at Torkington, in the following words: “ Torkington. — 
A curious little patch of permian beds occurs at Torkington, 
near Hazel Grove. The beds are only to be seen in the two 
brook courses, and as far as it is possible to make out their 
relationship to the coal measures they appear to lie in a 
trough formed in the lowest beds of the middle series, in 
fact over the Redacre coal, 
“The patch appears to be about one-fourth of a mile in 
breadth from east to west, and is bounded on both sides by 
carboniferous grits and shales. If we follow the brook 
eastward from Torkington we find the following series in 
descending order, all the beds dipping westward. 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil. Society.— Yol. IX.— No. 4.— Session 1869-70. 
