is naturally diawn to tlie older formations, but we must not forget tliat com- 

 paratively recent deposits overlie our old rooks whose history demands inves- 

 tigation, and I trust some of our members may be induced to study them. 

 Our attention was nest directed to the Silurian formations by BIr. La Touehe, in 

 his able address from the Titterstone Cle«, from which he pointed out their 

 relation to the Cambrian rocks in the distance and the coal measures under 

 our feet. To Mr. Salter we are especially indebted. His "Notes on the Onny 

 river section," and his pajjer on "Some new points in the geology of the Usk 

 district" are valuable contributions to Silurian geology, and those who attended 

 the meeting at Woolhope know how much his lucid description of the fossils 

 contributed to the interest and success of the day. The Rev. P. B. Brodie has 

 given US his very suggestive Paloeontological notes, and I trust that what he 

 says of the exposure of Downton sandstone at Burton, where he found abundant 

 remains of Pterygotus and Eurypterus will not be lost sight of. I am convinced 

 that this and the lower portion of the Old Red Sandstone around the Woolhope 

 district wiU yield a rich harvest to the diligent geologist, and I may remind 

 you that both crustacean and plant remains were found in the latter at Nash 

 Tump during the few minutes halt on our way to Sollar's Hope. Whilst working 

 in the lower Old Red Sandstone at Bwyas Harold, in company with Mr. Salter, I 

 was fortunate enough to add the Pterygotus Taurinus to our fossils. This 

 quarry is at no great distance from Rowlstone, where another unique fossU, the 

 Stylonurus Symondsii, figured in our transactions for this year, was found. I may 

 observe that in Siluria it is erroneously stated that Ro wlestone is in Brecknockshire 

 and near Hay, whereas it is in Herefordshire 13 miles south-east of Hay. In the 

 quarry from which the Stylonurus was obtained I found during the last summer 

 Cephalaspis and Parha decipiens, and am therefore disposed to place it consider- 

 ably lower in the Old Red than the zone apparently allotted to it by Murchison. 

 I believe there is stiU much to do in determining the horizons of the fossils of 

 the Lower Old Red and their relations to the different beds of Corn stones, and 

 I trust something more may be done in this matter during the ensuing season. 

 To those who are working at this subject the publication during the past year 

 by the Palseontographioal Society, of the first part of Mr. E. Ray Lankester's 

 monograph on the Ceplialaspidse will afford much assistance, and I hope the 

 remainder will soon follow. As it may confuse some of our members who are 

 not familiar with the strata, I may point out that he erroneously places the 

 Ludlow bone bed above the Downton sandstone. The same mistake is made 

 by LyeU, Elements 6th ed., pp. 106 and 548. The middle portion of the Old 

 Red continues as heretofore very barren in thi§ district, the only thing found 

 in it during the year so far as I know being some traces of plants, and the 

 almost equally barren upper part has only yielded a small portion of fish remains, 

 possibly a part of a scale of HoJoptychius which I found in the yellowish 

 sandstone beneath the mountain limestone near GUwern. Without wishing to 

 over estimate the importance of fossil remains, and whilst I would caution you 

 against hunting after fossils merely as fossils, yet 1 would remind you that they 



