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PRE-OARBONIFEROUS FLOOR OF THE MIDLANDS. 
broken up for road-mending near my liouse. Several of the 
species named above have also been collected by Prof. Bonney 
from the Bunter of Cannock Chase, by the Rev. P. B. Brodie 
from the Drift at Rowington, by Messrs. Jennings and 
Shipman from the Bunter of Nottingham, by Mr. A. H. 
Atkins from the pebble-beds of Ivinver Edge, and by Mr. 
F. T. S. Hongliton from the Drift near Moseley. Many 
years ago Mr. S. Gr. Perceval collected diligently from the 
drift at Harborne and at Moseley, suburbs of Birmingham. 
Mr. W. Molyneux has obtained from the Bunter of 
Cannock twenty species of fossils belonging to the May Hill 
Sandstone, and twenty-two species in pebbles of Mountain 
Limestone. A more exhaustive examination of the Bunter 
pebble-beds along their course from west to east is much to 
be desired, and is a work well worthy of the best energies of 
those who live near places where this formation is w T ell 
exposed. The conditions of search will be most favourable 
in pits where the pebbles are broken up for road-metal, and 
the services of the workmen should be enlisted in the search. 
Not only should the fossiliferous pebbles be collected, but as 
complete a set as possible of the rock-varieties represented 
slioukl be secured. 
The Kenner Pebble Bed .—In the Midlands, there is an 
unconformity between the Bunter and the Keuper, and the 
latter formation is ushered in—locally—by a breccia which 
resembles that found at the base of the Bunter. It contains 
numerous angular quartzite pebbles, and its extreme thickness 
is forty feet. In the Alton and Peckforton Hills this Keuper 
breccia is repeated by strike-faults, and so forms tw 7 o or three 
ridges parallel to one another. No thorough examination of 
the pebbles has yet been made, a task which local geologists 
might well undertake. 
The Pebble Bed of Budleitjh Salterton .—In looking else¬ 
where for an analogy to the Bunter Conglomerate of the 
Midlands our attention is at once arrested by the remarkable 
accumulation of quartzite pebbles which form a bed eighty 
feet thick in the Tnassic cliffs at Budleigh Salterton, near 
Exmouth, in Devonshire. In a beautiful monograph on the 
fossil brachiopods obtained from this locality, Mr. Davidson 
has described * twelve species from the Arenigs ; eight from 
the Caradoc; and thirt 3 r -tliree from the Lower Devonian 
formation ; about thirty other species of fossils belonging to 
these formations have been found at Budleigh, by Messrs. 
Wyatt-Edgell, W. Linford, W. Vicary, and others. 
* Volume of tlie Faloeontographical Society for 1881. 
