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onll]op0 Naturalists' jfielir ffihtb. 



Tuesday, July i8th, 1854. 



LEOMINSTER. 



Another of the pleasant and instructive Field Meetings of this Society took 

 place at Leominster, on Tuesday, iSth July, the district proposed for investigation 

 lying between the town of Leominster, Kimbolton Church, Lever Hill, Puddle - 

 stone, Brockmanton, and Bach. 



Geologically situated upon the Old Red Sandstone, which it is regretted 

 has hitherto remained in Herefordshire almost a " terra incognita," a doubt rested 

 upon the minds of the geologists present as to the probable interest of the day's 

 proceedings. We are happy, however, to record that the investigations were 

 more than ordinarily fruitful, and some facts were ascertained which were not 

 only highly interesting to the members present, but will tend to throw additional 

 light upon the geology of the county. 



The weather was remarkably fine ; there was a fair attendance, and the 

 extreme beauty and richness of the surrounding scenery rendered the meeting 

 a most dehghtful one. 



The Hereford members assembled at the railway station after breakfast, and 

 proceeded by the 9.40 a.m. train, to Leominster. On their arrival at the Roval 

 Oak Hotel, the party was increased by members from the surrounding district, 

 and the ordinary business of the club was transacted ; seven new members were 

 balloted for, and duly elected, a fact which indicates that the love of the delightful 

 study of Natural History is on the increase. 



At II a.m., the party started in a special coach for Lever Hill, under the able 

 guidance of the President, of that celebrated geologist, the Rev. T. T. Lewis, of 

 Aymestrey, and also of the Rev. Thos. Hutchinson, of Kimbolton, whose extensive 

 local scientific knowledge was the means of adding considerably to the day's 

 enjoyment. As the party proceeded, Mr. Lewis explained that the portion of the 

 Old Red Sandstone to be explored was the central and largest of the deposit, 

 consisting of spotted green and red clays and marls, affording on decomposition, 

 the richest soils, and also containing irregular courses of red and green earthy 

 hmestone, locally termed " Cornstones," usually consisting of small concretionary 

 lumps, but expanding here and there into large sub-crystaUine masses. 



The first spot visited was the quarry on the southern approach to Lever Hill, 

 exposing the Cornstone and accompanying flagstones of the district. Attention 

 was immediately attracted by the organic contents of the rocks. Every fragment 

 around was filled with the evidence of former Ufe ; the remains being principally 

 those of the characteristic fossil, the " Cephalaspis." 



