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In the same neighbourhood, at Forge Bridge, though in the Upper Ludlow 

 bed, several imperfect specimens of the Pterygotus were found. In a similar 

 situation, namely, at the top of the Upper Ludlow Rocks, in Stoke Edith Park, 

 Mr. Banks reminds me that the members found a layer of carbonised fucoid 

 plants, as well as a smaU species of the Trilobite family, which has been named 

 Lichas' Bucklandi (or Hursutus). At Ludford. the same beds— those immediately 

 below the Downton Sandstone— have yielded remains of Pteraspis, Cephalaspis, 

 Eur>'pterus, and Pterygotus, also some pustulated curved plates, having teeth 

 on the outside of the curve ; they are supposed to belong to a fish. The railway 

 cuttings of the same neighbourhood, through the beds at the bottom of the " Old 

 Red," have furnished an immense quantity of remains of the Pterygotus, of two 

 different species, Pterygotus Anglicus and Pterygotus Acuminatus ; also two 

 species of Eurypterus, and a Cephalaspis, named by Sir P. Egerton, " Ornatus," 

 besides a smaller specimen which he considers to be generically distinct, and 

 names Auchenaspis Salteri. The same beds have also supplied specimens of the 

 spines and skm of Plectrodus mirabilis, and two species of bivalve Crustaceans. 

 The lower strata of the " Old Red " on the banks of the Teme, near Downton, 

 contain a " fish bed," in which have been found the Pterygotus, Eurypterus, 

 Cephalaspis Murchisoni, with the Ornichus and Lingula. 



Our friend Mr. Symonds, has also brought into notice a fine specimen of a 

 crustacean aUied to Eurypterus, which was discovered by an intelligent working 

 man at Rowlstone, near Ewyas Harold, in this County, in a Sandstone bed of the 

 upper Cornstones of the •' Old Red " at Rowlstone, and which, through the 

 kindness of the Rev. Mr. Wenman, in whose possession it now is, many of us have 

 had the opportunity to examine. 



Various fossUs from this county and neighbourhood are to be described by 

 Mr. Salter in the forthcoming number of the Decades of the Geological Society. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for August, 1857, contains 

 a description, by Su: R. Murchison and Six- P. Egerton, of some entirely new fossil 

 fishes, discovered by Mr. Salwey and Mr. Lightbody ; by the former in the " Old 

 Red •'• of Acton Beauchamp, and by the latter in the bone-beds of Lucton. 



And last but not least, the discoveries of organic remains in water, as low 

 down in the scale as the Cambrian Rocks, have been made in the neighbourhood 

 of the Malvern Hills by Dr. Grmdrod, of Malvern. The green Hollybush Sand- 

 stone of the Malvems are generally ranked as of Cambrian age, inasmuch as the 

 black shales above them contain Trilobites, found in other parts of Europe in 

 strata older than the base of the Llandilo flags. The fossils discovered by Dr. 

 Grindrod are the tubes of ancient marine worms, which have been named " Areni- 

 cola antiquissima." It would appear more than probable, from certain specimens 

 of Trilobites associated with shells-which as we learn from the Edmburgh 

 Philosophical Journal, were lately exhibited by Professor Dawa at the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, as having been discovered m a 

 deposit called the Potsdam Sandstone of the Cambrian age-that the Cambrian 

 deposit was by no means so destitute of life as has been generally supposed. 



