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Ordinary Meeting, November 26th, 1861. 
J. P. Joule, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Joseph Sidebotham exhibited a photograph of the 
contorted schists seen in the cliff near the South Stack 
Lighthouse, Holyhead. 
Mr. John Parry showed some photographs of fossil woods 
from the South Lancashire coal field. These displayed 
beautifully the structure, even to the most minute vessels. 
A Paper was read by Mr. E. AY. Binney, F.R.S., Vice- 
President, entitled “ Additional Observations on the Permian 
Beds of South Lancashire.” This was a continuation of two 
previous papers read before the Society and printed in its 
Memoirs.* Since that time the Author had made further 
observations on the Permian strata at Heaton Norris, near 
Stockport ; Medlock Yale, between Ashton and Manchester ; 
Chorlton-upon-Medlock, and Ordsal, near Manchester ; and 
Skillaw Clough and Bentley Brook, near Newburgh, in the 
"West of Lancashire. 
At Heaton Norris, in the sand delf of Mr. Howard, near 
the railway station, the loAver new red sandstone was seen 
dipping to the south-west at an angle of 25°. This was 
succeeded by red and variegated marls having a similar dip 
These last named strata were overlapped by the Trias, which 
dips to the south-west at an angle of 12°. 
* Yols. xii. and xiv. (New Series) of the Society’s Memoirs. 
Pboceedings — Lit. &Phil. Society — No. 5.— Session 1861-62. 
