Ordinary Meeting, January 13, 1863. 
E. W. Binned, F.B.S., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
The President said: — In a very valuable work lately 
published by that eminent geologist Dr. Geinitz, of Dresden, 
entitled, “ Dyas, or the Magnesian Limestone Formation and 
the Lower New Bed Sandstone,” the Author, whom I have 
had the pleasure of accompanying over some of the permian 
deposits of South Lancashire, has done me the honour to 
allude to two Papers of mine, “ On the Permian Deposits of 
the North-West of England,” printed in Vols. Nil. and 
XIV., Second Series, of the Society’s Memoirs. 
At page 313 of the above work the Author says, “ Through 
Mr. Binney we have become acquainted with true Both- 
liegende, and indeed of its upper portion in the region of the 
lower red sandstone of the north-west of England. That 
accurate observer mentioned to me that the reddish gray 
sandstone underlying it, and which is very similar to the 
lower red sandstone of the north-east of England, contains 
plants of the coal measures, and that it occupies even a lower 
position than certain limestones of the coal measures which 
are rich in ichthyolites. I have myself seen from the reddish 
sandstone of Astley, near Manchester, Calamites approxi - 
matus Schl., and Calamites Suclcoioi Brongn. ; from the red 
shales at Ardwick, Manchester, Sagenaria dichotoma Sternb., 
Calamites Suckoici Bring., Sphenopteris irregularis Sternb., 
Proceedings— Lit, and Phil. Society— No. 6.— Session 18C2-3. 
