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which latter still bears evident marks of the molten mass that was forced through 

 it. It is evident that the erupted matter did not overflow, but cooled down as it 

 reached the surface ; it was noticed also, that Sandstone on either side of the 

 chasm lay horizontally, probably owing, as was suggested by Mr. T. T. Davies, 

 to the abrupt and sudden manner of its intrusion. Near this is " the Dome," 

 an upheaved mass of Downton Sandstone and Upper Ludlow — the scene of the 

 discovery of the Fish bed by the late lamented Mr. Scobie, the first Honorary 

 Secretary of the Club. We dined at Hereford (Mitre Hotel). Afterwards the 

 Honorary Secretary mentioned the discovery of the Rowlstone fossil alluded to 

 elsewhere (the specimen itself now being at the Museum of Economic Geology) — 

 its discovery is esteemed one of the highest importance. Dr. Bull called attention 

 to the rapid spread of the Anacharis, and its presence in our Canal ; also to the 

 circumstance that it had been found at Northampton in 1836, and that Dr. 

 Hooker had noticed it in Scotland in 1841. Mr. Flavell Edmunds was now re- 

 quested to revert to a subject discussed at Tarrington — that of buned seeds — 

 he gave many instances, chiefly from excavations in railway cuttings, where 

 plants, fresh to the district, had sprung up in great abundance ; illustrating as 

 he believed, the admitted fact that seeds may retain their vitality for an almost 

 indefinite period, if separated from those essentials to germination, air, moisture, 

 warmth, and darkness. Your President instanced a fact in support of these 

 views, in the sudden appearance, and very great amount, of the Equisetum in 

 the Brick-yard at Shelwick, alongside the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, 

 where previously none had been observed. Botanists made no important 

 " finds." Campanula patula and Lepidium Smithii were the most notable. 



THE GEOLOGICAL SUMMARY. 



It will be expected that an Institution, whose field is Siluria, and which even 

 takes its name from the most remarkable spot of that remarkable region — should 

 have a word to say about geology. Nor will that expectation be disappointed, 

 seeing that it is our good fortune to number among ourselves several acute and 

 successful observers. No special discoveries, that I am aware of, were made by 

 the members in their Field Days during the past year, as had been the case in a 

 former year, when they found the footprints of a crustacean on the sandstone 

 slabs in the large quarry at Puddlestone ; yet by the kindness of Mr. Salwey and 

 Mr. Lightbody and Mr. Banks, as well as our late President, the Rev. William 

 Symonds, I am enabled to announce to you the discovery of several interesting 

 fossils in different localities of this County, or its immediate neighbourhood. 



In the Ludlow district, the Lower Ludlow beds at Church Hill, near Downton, 

 have yielded to the persevering researches of the two former gentlemen, Mr. 

 Cocking, and other local observers, at least eleven different species of Asterias, 

 or Starfish, which have been named Protaster ; a new genus intermediate between 

 the Trilobite and the Limulus, and named Limuloides ; three or four species of 

 PhyUopod, a crustacean resembling the Shrimp, with a beautiful tail, and a new 

 species of Cornularia. 



