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Mr. Barker, of Hereford, has a fine remnant of a new species of Cephalaspis, which 

 was forwarded by the late Mr. Strickland to Lord Enniskillen for examination. 

 This, with about half a dozen other specimens in the private cabinets of Mr. Lewis 

 and Mr. Suter, constitute the memoranda a stranger geologist may expect to 

 find of that Old Red Sandstone of which Sir R. Murchison declares, " there is no 

 such other tract in the world." 



Gentlemen, I apprehend that the formation of these Societies is to extend 

 the love of Natural History as an educational science, and that our aim lies 

 beyond a dinner and a walk. I therefore think that every one of us should lend 

 a helping hand towards making the Hereford Museum a practical Institution 

 of the county and neighbourhood of Hereford. We are now engaged upon the same 

 work at Malvern, and before another year has passed away we shall be enabled 

 to give you tangible proof that the Naturalists of Worcestershire have not been 

 idle. Let me then call upon you, as lovers of nature, to assist in the illustrations 

 of the natural history of your own county. Geologists, make the rocks ring and 

 yield up their treasures. Botanists, many a specimen you carelessly throw 

 away would be worth noting and recording. We may one and all, if we choose, 

 come forth with friendly aid and render some good service towards the illustration 

 of the Natural History of Herefordshire, the dear old county of the " Old Red 

 Sandstone." 



Mr. Symonds proceeded to remark that he had lately found how true of 

 geology was the saying of one of its greatest masters, that " its goal of to-day is the 

 starting point of to-morrow." Since writing that paper he had been compelled 

 to modify several of his opinions. It had been said that the Old Red of Hereford- 

 shire contained no fossU shells, but he now produced a specimen from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bromyard, which he was enabled to show them by the kind permission 

 of the council of the Worcestershire Natural History Society, to whom it belonged, 

 and which was undoubtedly Orthoceratite. He had himself, quite accidentally, 

 met with the fossil in going over the collection of the Society, and it showed him 

 how dangerous it was to form positive conclusions on mere negative evidence. 

 He trusted the Old Red of Herefordshire would now receive thorough investigation 

 and he had no doubt that a multitude of new facts would yet be brought to hght 

 through the medium of their Society. 



A set of Meteorological instruments was ordered to be purchased, and to be 

 placed in the hands of Hewett Wheatley, Esq., who has undertaken to make the 

 necessary observations. From Mr. Wheatley's known ability we look forward 

 to important results being obtadned. 



The President announced that the great Meeting at Worcester of the Natural 

 History Clubs was fixed for the loth of October, and that the Bishop of Worcester 

 had consented to occupy the Chair. Professor Phillips of Oxford has kindly 

 undertaken to deUver an address ; and Professor Lindley, the eminent botanist 

 and author, is also expected. Mr. Armstrong, of London, wiU conduct arcbaao- 

 logical parties and explain the principal features of interest in the Cathedral and 



