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would generally be considered immature forms of T. Phtflipsti, the 

 aged and typical form of the latter occurring most frequently in the 

 upper and more rubbly portion of the quarry. These observations 

 lead naturally to the inference that T. Buckmanni will eventually 

 be pronounced to be merely a young form of T. Phillipsn, as we have 

 only to produce using the term in its technical sense the outline 

 of typical T. Buckmanni, to obtain the perfect form of the other 

 species. 



It is also worthy of remark, that in the Trigonia beds at Hares- 

 field, which are no longer gritty, but flaggy in structure, and from 

 which the contained fossils may be disembedded without much 

 difficulty, a form of Terelratula abounds, which is generally called 

 glolata ; but upon comparing it with its predecessors, to which the 

 foregoing remarks apply, it will be seen at a glance that it quite as 

 nearly resembles them, as the species to which it is generally 



The entomological event of the day was the capture, by the 

 President and Mr. Marshall, of six individuals of the rare rhyu- 

 chophorous beetle Platyrhinus latirostis, taken upon decayed ash- 

 pollards, feeding on Spharia concentrica (Berkeley), Sph: 

 fraxinea Sow., with which their trunks were embossed. 



On Thursday, 19th of May, the Club assembled at Apperley 

 Court, by invitation from H. Strickland, Esq., to meet the gentle- 

 men of the Malvern, Woolhope, and Worcester Nat. : Hist. : 

 Field Clubs ; and were entertained in a style of genuine old 

 English hospitality, which well illustrated the high esteem and 

 regard in which the kind-hearted host holds the cultivators of 

 those delightful sciences, from which he has himself, during a 

 long life, derived so much pleasure, and with which the name of 

 his family will ever be honourably associated. 



After dinner, by permission of our host, scientific discussion 

 was invited, and the 



Rev. W. S. Symonds, of Pendock, President of the Malvern 

 Field Club, proceeded to announce the discovery of a Pteraspis, 

 an " Old Red Ganoid " in the Lower Ludlow Rocks of Leint- 

 wardine, by Mr. Lightbody. This is a most important discovery, 

 as fish-existence is thereby carried two steps lower in the geolo- 

 gical scale than it had been previously supposed to range. In 

 the words of Mr. Symonds, at a recent meeting of the Malvern 

 Field Club, " this discovery greatly antedates the period during 

 which fish have been proved to have existed ; for the whole thick- 

 ness of the ' Upper Ludlow Shales,' and the ' Aymestry Lime- 

 stone ' intervenes between the grave of the Pteraspis of the 

 ' Upper Ludlow Shales,' and that of the Pteraspis ludewis (Salter) 

 of the Lower Ludlow Rock of Leintwardiue." 



Mr. Jones then introduced to the notice of the meeting, the re- 

 markable discovery made by Dr. Falconer, in the Cave of Maccag- 

 none, near Palermo, of human implements in flint, together with 



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