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true place of the SigiUaria, whether Asterophyllites is an aquatic plant or not. 

 and several other exclusively botanical points, which it would be out of place to 

 enter upon now. 



As regards our local work, I have, in company with Mr. Adams, one of the 

 members of the Club, found seven specimens of fish remains, and upwards of 

 fifty shells ; and what is of more importance, I have succeeded in tracmg a very 

 abundant marine shell bed for nearly sixty miles throughout the coal basm. 

 With Mr. Salter's help in naming and classifying my fossils, some minor discoveries 

 were made, further exemplifying the uselessness of limiting our ^ones of life too 

 severely-for some 700 feet up in the Coal Measures, a shell was found, hitherto 

 considered to have perished with the end of the Mountain Limestone series. 



And now I trust you will not have considered me very tedious in my attempt 

 to review some of the principal points interesting to us as a Society, feeling 

 assured, that though they are not all of local interest, yet they affect us all, for 

 while we individually are local and minute workers, we are. or ought to be. cos- 

 mopolitan in geological and scientific knowledge. In bidding you. therefore, fare- 

 well as President of Woolhope Club, let me remind you of the somewhat hackneyed 

 but deeply significant proverb : — 



" Ars lonf,a vila brevis." 



Thanks were then voted to Dr. Bevan, with the expression of the wish that 

 he would allow his address to be printed in the Club's Transactions. 



NOTE. 

 While these sheets were passing through the press, a discovery was made 

 whirh though not actually occurring in the area embraced by the Club, wil be of 

 sufficient interest to record ; and that is. the observance of a protrusion of Upper 

 Silurian rocks close to Cardiff, in a district hitheito entirely unsuspected, and 

 indeed marked by Ihe Government Surveyors as Old Red Sandstone. My 

 attention was called to the fact by a letter which appeared m the Geologist for 

 April, x86i. and I immediately visited the spot. The deposits occur m the 

 rising ground of Pen-y-lan Hill, about one and a half miles to the e-t of Cardiff 

 and are bounded on the west, east, and south by the Drift valley of the Taff, the 

 aney of the Rhymney, and the alluvial marshes on the sea-shore respectively 

 on the west and south they are covered by Drift, and on the north are overlaid by 

 Old Red Sandstone. The whole area, as far as I have at present -^^-^-^ °;^^- 

 about one and a half miles in breadth, by one and a half m length. A quan-y 

 the mouth of which faces the Bristol Channel, has been extensively worked. Th 

 beds appear to be Wenlock Shale, of which there are also capital sections m the 

 lanes around. They dip to the north east at an angle of thirty degrees Th 

 foUowing fossils have been found-some by Mr. Glass, of Kensington, who first 

 called attention to the facts, and a few by me. Bellerophon dilatatus. Athyns 

 umllLnus, Calymene. Phacops. Acidaspis. Orthoceras. Natica. RhynconeUa. 

 &c. I should be very glad if any Hereford member would devote a day to a further 

 examination of these beds with me. G P B. 



April, 1861. 



