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by Mr. Strickland and W. Salter. I give the passage at the commencement of 

 Mr. Salter's paper in extenso . — 



" The limbs of this interesting Silurian fossil not having hitherto been 

 discovered, the present specimen is of considerable interest, as connecting it 

 satisfactorily with the species so fully figured by Agassiz, which was obtained from 

 the basement beds of the Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire. But though of the 

 same genus with the Scotch fossil, it presents characters that specifically differ." 

 Not more than a fortnight since my attention was called to a collection of Upper 

 Silurian fossils in the cabinet of Mr. Richard Banks of Kington, and on examining 

 these specimens I found he possessed a large drawer full of the very fossils which 

 palaeontologists have so coveted to obtain. They were obtained from the " Tile 

 stones " at the base of the Old Red Sandstone at Kington ; and what with the 

 feet, plates, and claws (one of which is even more perfect than the Hagley specimen) 

 I believe that from Mr. Banks' collection an Owen or Agassiz would restore the 

 Pterygotus. even as the Seraphim of the Scotch quarrymen stood forth, plate 

 to plate restored, a monument of creation and design ! Mr. Banks has kindly 

 promised on the first opportunity to forward his fossils to Mr. Salter for examina- 

 tion and description.* 



There is another point respecting the Pterygotus to which I would call the 

 attention of geologists, and that is the great range of that an/mal as regards its 

 period of existence. With the Downton beds how little of Silurian life remains ! 

 With the Tilestones it altogether disappears ; and yet the remains of the Ptery- 

 gotus occin: in the upper Caradoc of Malvern. 



The conclusion of Mr. Symonds' address contained a reproduction of his 

 earnest requests in his paper on " the Old Red Sandstone of Herefordshire " 

 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. 



The concluding remarks will bear repetition : — Let me 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 re- 

 cording ! We may one and all, if we chose, come forth with friendly aid and 

 render some good service towards the illustration of the Natural History of 

 Herefordshire, the dear old country of the " Old Red Sandstone." 



The thanks of the meeting were voted by acclamation to the Rev. W. S. 

 Symonds, who consented to furnish a history of the Geological proceedings of 



Together with the Pterygoti, Mr. Banks found fossils formerly confounded with the 

 genus Cephalaspis Ag., but now sep.irated. The species are new, but much like C. Lloydii Ag., 

 hitherto known only in the overlying Old Red " (Journal Geological Society, Feb. i, 1856, 

 p. 23). " Himanopterus Banksii_ a remarkable crustacean found by Mr. Banks, is described 

 by Mr. Salter, page 32 of the same Journal. 



An excellent engraving of " Leptocheles," or triple tail species of a Stomapod crustacean, 

 in the possession of Mr. Lightbody, a member of the Woolhope Club, is engraved on plate 8 

 of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, October, 1855. 



The Club have to thank Mrs. Salwey, of Ludlow, for the drawing from which the 

 engraving was executed.— W. S. S., March 2nd, 1855. 



