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SHoulbop^ JIaturalists' JFi^Itr Qtlub. 



Second Field Meeting, Tuesday, July 29TH, 185O. 



KINGTON. 



The members of the Club held their second Meeting for this year at 

 Kington, on Tuesday, 29th July, when the following members were present: — 

 Mr. R. W. Banks, Mr. R. Lightbody and son, Mr. W. H. Purchas, Dr. G. P. Bevan, 

 Col. Colvin and son. Rev. J. F. Crouch, Rev. T. Hutchinson, Dr. Samuel Steele, 

 Mr. A. Thompson, Mr. T. Curley, Mr. J. Cocking, and Mr. Salter, of the Museum 

 of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, one of the hon. members, who conferred a 

 great favour upon the Club by his kind attendance and lucid remarks upon the 

 different rock formations visited in the course of the day. 



The party having breakfasted together at the Oxford Arms, and having 

 gone through some preliminary business, proceeded to the house of Mr. Banks to 

 inspect his splendid collection of fossils. A drawing of the Pterygotus anglicus 

 was exhibited, and explained by Mr. Salter. The drawing is designed to illus- 

 trate a paper to be read at the British Association at Cheltenham. This huge 

 crustacean was about 9 feet long, being supplied in addition to the pincers, 

 with two swimming feet, or paddles. The body, which is conical, consists of a 

 series of moveable rings, terminating in an oval-pointed tail. Nearly the whole 

 of the parts have been found, leaving very little for the comparative anatomist 

 to fill up in order to complete the animal. 



The party, under the guidance of Mr. Banks, proceeded to the Ivy Chimney 

 quarry, where large boulders of trap rock, probably from Hanter HUl, and Wool- 

 hope limestone, were found imbedded. After spending about half an hour in this 

 quarry, they proceeded to a quarry of Downton Sandstone on the top of Bradnor 

 HiU, when a large quantity of fossils were found, the most interesting being the 

 swimming feet and pincers of the Pterygotus. These specimens were the largest 

 ever found, and fuUy bear out Mr. Salter in his theory that the animal attained 

 a very large size. 



After spending about an hour and a half in this quarry, which lies at the base 

 of the Old Red Sandstone system, the party proceeded down Newton Lane, 

 where the Upper Ludlow formation of the Silurian system is very finely developed. 

 The strata in this part are exceedingly prolific in fossils, every person filling his 

 bag with very fine spechnens. After spending about two hours in " grubbing " 

 and " bagging " fossUs in this lane, the day's work was brought to a close at the 

 Castle Hill, where the tram-road cutting lays the rock bare for about 50 feet in 



