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short distance, our course was up the river, through the beautiful and richly- 

 wooded gorge of the Teme — the picturesque rocks on either bank, in many places 

 whitened by a calcareous deposit, affording excellent sections of the Upper Ludlow 

 rock. Near the Bow Bridge a fine perpendicular escarpment of Aymestry limestone 

 was passed ; — here the Botanists, who had separated to pursue their researches 

 in the Downton Castle grounds, rejoined the party. Our course was now directed 

 to Leintwardine. At Trippleton a quarry of Lower Ludlow was examined, and 

 a fine specimen of Ceratiocaris discovered. Near Leintwardine, either side of the 

 lane leading to Church Hill exposed beds of Lower Ludlow, in which numerous 

 Graptolites and other characteristic fossils occurred. At Church Hill, famous 

 for having furnished the Pterygotus punctatus and many new species of Star-fishes 

 (several of which have been described and figured by Mr. Saltei), the day's 

 excursion terminated. Here the custodians of the quarry appeared, and offered 

 for sale some fair specimens of Star-flshts, which ere now probably grace the 

 cabinet of Professor Geinitz, of Dresden, our companion during the day, whose 

 able researches in the Permian and Lower Silurian strata of Saxony are so often 

 mentioned by Sir Roderick Murchison in " Siluria." I will not quit the Church Hill 

 quarry without expressing a %vish that the Club will use its influence to persuade 

 the owner of the land m which the quarry is situate, to allow the working of it to be 

 continued within fixed and reasonable limits, and thus enable our enterprising 

 members to continue their researches, which ha\-e already thrown so much light 

 and additional information on the forms of extinct Star-fishes and Crustaceans. 



Before I pass to our next day's excursion, I must again refer you to Mr. Lewis' 

 Address for an account of previous meetings of this Club at Leintwardine and the 

 Nash Lime Rocks, which the Club again visited on the last Field-day of the past 

 year. 



We met at Corton Turnpike on the 7th August, and after passing the quarry 

 of Upper Llandovery, or Mayhill Sandstone, here worked for road materials, we 

 ascended the hill and passed round to the sand-pits on the northern side. Here 

 Wenlock Shale and Woolhope Limestone, resting on Upper Llandovery beds, 

 dipping 40 degrees to the north, appeared cropping out on the surface— the anti- 

 clinal beds of which are seen on the southern side, affording, in the Upper Llan- 

 dovery beds, specimens of Petraia and other characteristic fossils. Sir Roderick 

 Murchison, in his "Silurian System," expresses an opinion that the same volcanic 

 forces which disturbed the strata on Old Radnor Hill and threw up the volcanic 

 masses of Stanner Rocks, Worzel and Hanter Hills, had also exercised a powerful 

 operation here, upheaving the limestone and Llandovery beds — altering the 

 limestone of Nash into an amorphous, unstratified rock, and causing the numerous 

 faults in the Old Red Sandstone, which occur in the immediate vicinity, although 

 the igneous rocks did not present themselves to his view ; subsequent investiga- 

 tions have confirmed the correctness of his opinion. At Old Radnor the igneous 

 matter has burst through the limestones, altering in a similar manner the portions 

 which came immediately into contact with it, and converting the Wenlock Shale, 

 with the Trilobites and Encrinites which it contains, into a fractured coal-like 

 shale. 



