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The President exhibited to the meeting some coal 
measure plants and other organic remains from Spain. He 
said that Mr. R. C. W. King, of London, had sent him a 
collection of minerals and fossils to examine. In looking 
them over he found scales of a Pcdceoniscus, an Estheria 
which his friend Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., had 
recognised as tenella, and which he (the President) had 
found in the upper and middle coal measures of Lancashire ; 
Sigillaria reniformis, a Lepidodendron, and a Neuropteris. 
They were met with in sinking a shaft in search of coal at 
Puertollano, near Cuidad Real, in the Province of La 
Mancha. 
The following is a section of the strata in descending 
order : — 
No. Metre. Cent. 
1 Vegetable earth 1*35 
2 Saponaceous earth 1*35 
3 Decomposed slate 1 *95 
4 Ditto with thin seam of coal 0*05 
5 Slate, solid 3*80 
6 Thin seam of coal O01 
7 Slate with fossils 0*20 
8 Thin seam of coal 0*02 
9 Dark-coloured saponaceous earth 0*20 
10 Grey sandstone, hard 2*30 
11 Ditto, light coloured 0*31 
12 Slate with fossils D50 
13 Grey sandstone, light coloured 0*02 
14 Slate, solid 0‘04 
15 Grey sandstone, light coloured 0*04 
16 Slate, solid 0*04 
17 Grey sandstone, light coloured O' 02 
18 Slate, solid 1*63 
19 Grey sandstone, hard 0*22 
20 Slate, solid P94 
21 Grey sandstone, hard 0*05 
22 Decomposed slate with thin coal 0*20 
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