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Mr. Baxter observed that Silurian fossils had been found in the bed of the 

 Severn at Worcester. 



Mr. Lewis remarked that the River Tame which drains the Ludlow district, 

 falls into the Severn at Worcester, and probably the Silurian fragments had been 

 brought down by that tributary. 



Mr. T. T. Davies remarked that he had long felt a great interest in the inquiry, 

 and about twelve months ago, when returning from the meeting of the Cambrian 

 Archaeological Society at Brecon, he had, in conjunction with his friend, Mr. 

 Edmunds, examined pretty closely the drift in the neighbourhood of the igneous 

 ranges which cross the river near Builth. At Dol-fach, in particular, they found an 

 immense quantity of the fragments of the rocks mentioned by Mr. Edmunds as 

 occurring in the lower drift about Hereford. They then traced the drift to its 

 termination, which was upon the side of a hill of Upper Ludlow rock, the strata 

 of which they noticed to become gradually tilted untU they became vertical. 



Mr. Edmunds wished to add a single remark : he had not only found the 

 lower drift at Hereford to be identical with that at Builth, which latter had been 

 washed out of the subsoil by the floods of July, 1853 ; but he also noticed that 

 the size of the fragments gradually diminished from Builth downwards to Hereford. 

 Among the fragments found at Dol-fach he remembered Mr. Davies calling his 

 attention to a piece of basaltic column more than a foot long, and seven or eight 

 inches broad, the crystalline form of which was fuUy preserved, as far as a shaving — 

 so to speak — of about an inch thick could preserve the form of a column. 



Mr. Lewis had no doubt that such fragments would be readily found in the 

 vicinity of Builth. 



The Chairman felt much obliged to Mr. Edmunds for having brought forward 

 the subject, which was a very interesting one. Individual observation by the 

 members, and the communication of the result at the meetings, was the only mode 

 by which the Club could fulfU its object in the investigation of the Natural History 

 of the County. 



A New Plant found in Herefordshire. 



The allusion of the benefit of individual observation in the advancement of 

 scientific knowledge elicited from Mr. Lees a fact interesting to the botanists of 

 this and neighbouring counties. 



Mr. Lees observed that there was a circumstance recently come to his know- 

 ledge, which would doubtless be interesting to the Club, and which he thought 

 deserved notice in their records. This was the discovery of a plant in Hereford- 

 shire, entirely new to the Flora of Britain. The plant was an orchideous one, grow- 

 ing in very shady places, the Satyrium Epipogium of Linnaeus, but by the modern 

 botanists denominated Epipogum aphyllum. It had been found within the last 

 three weeks by a lady botanist, Mrs. Smith of Tedstone Rectory, in the parish of 

 Tedstone Delamere near Bromyard, and he was obliged to confess that he was here 

 vanquished by a lady, as he had himself botanised on the same spot with the Rev. 



