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moolbopt naturalists' ^FitlJ) Club. 



Joint Meeting with the Cotteswold and Malvern Field Clubs at Ledbury, 

 Wednesday, June 29TH, 1859. 



Having failed to find a record in our local papers or in the minutes of the 

 Club of the above Joint Field Meeting, we learn from page 19 of Transactions of 

 the Malvern Club, Part III.* that an examination was made of the railway cutting 

 at Ledbury railway station, and of the fossils collected by Henry Brooks, a workmg 

 man of Ledbury, consisting of numerous remains of the fossil fishes, Auchenaspis, 

 Cephalaspis, Pteraspis, and Plectrodus, from rocks at the base of the Old Red 

 Sandstone, termed " Passage-beds " by Sir Roderic Murchison, but which lie 

 considerably above the Downton Sandstones and Upper Ludlows. 



" It was soon after this meeting that Mr. Walter Barrow obtained a nearly 

 perfect specimen of Cephalaspis Mtirchisoni from the Auchenaspis bearing grey 

 grits above the Downton beds ..." 



A short account of the meeting will also be found on pages 52 and 53 of the 

 Worcestershire Naturalists' Club, in which we read that the company were led by 

 Rev. Wm. Symonds to the deep railway cutting through " Dog Hill," where the 

 Passage-beds between the Old Red and the Upper Silurian formations are. e.xposed 

 to view, and the Old Red Sandstone, with its intervening beds of marl and grey 

 shales, appear in a singularly disturbed manner, its strata tUted up very strangely, 

 and presenting various tints. 



Mr. Symonds alluded to the position of the so-called Cornstone beds in the 

 Old Red, and contended that some of them, instead of being at the base of the 



system, as laid down by Sir R. Murchison in fact occurred 



in various places of the system. 



Braidlow HiU was also visited, and the botanical members botanized in 

 Frith Wood. 



The clearness of the atmosphere rendered the view of the distant heights of 

 Monmouth, Brecon, and Radnor very impressive. 



The proposed Second Field Meeting of this year for Longhope, on Tuesday, 

 July 19th, did not come off, in consequence of the members not having received 

 due notice thereof. A special bye-day was appointed for Mordiford on Thursday, 

 September 8th. 



* Tbe first 37 pages of Part III. comprise " A Sketch of the Proceedings of the Malvern 

 Naturalists' Field Club from its coinmencement in 1853 to the close of the year 186S," by the 

 Rev. Wm. S. Symonds, F G.S., Keetor of Pendock, and President of the Club. 



