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of Lingula in the Bala limestone at Hordesley ; and a new species of Asaphus 

 found by Mr. Marston in the shales above this limestone. Mr. Lightbody also 

 tells me that Professor Wyville Thompson is wTiting on a new Echinosphsrites, 

 found in Church -Hill quarry, somewhat similar in character, but larger and more 

 spiny than Palsodiscus ferox. I regret that I am unable to refer at greater 

 length to the spbject of Mr. Lightbody's letter, but I trust that he will supply my 

 omission by reading a paper at one of our meetings for the present year. Mr. 

 Crouch has met with Pterygotus punctatus, and a species of Ceratiocaris in the 

 Lower Ludlow Shales of Bradnor wood, Kington. Mr. Salter, when he heard 

 of it, rejoiced in the probable discovery of the zone of the Star-fishes, and spent 

 a day during last summer with Mr. Crouch and Mr. Lightbody, in a search for 

 traces of them in these beds without result. As none of the Old Red fishes have 

 been yet met with in the neighbourhood of Kington, I may mention that I found, 

 last summer, in a quarry of grey sandstone, on the Rodd farm, Kington, a good 

 specimen of the head of Cephalaspis Lyellii. I had previously met with slight 

 traces of fishes in the same quarry, but the fragments were too small for reference 

 to any kno^vn species. Mr. Alfred Marston, who has done so much to bring to 

 light the extinct animals of the Ludlow district, has kindly furnished me with a 

 list of fossil Crustaceans, Star -fishes, and fishes, found in the neighbourhood of 

 Ludlow, during the last four or five years. I have made additions to the list, 

 and, having submitted it for correction to Mr. Lightbody, have added it to my 

 address, as a record of some of the discoveries of the Woolhope Club. 



I have dwelt at some length on these details, because it appears to me that 

 the Field Clubs may more usefully employ themselves in the collection and 

 co-ordination of facts relating to Natural History in all its branches, than in 

 speculations, which, however ingenious, would crumble to pieces when they were 

 handled, on account of the limited range of our researches. 



As it is part of my duty to-day to offer suggestions for the promotion of the 

 objects of the Club, I feel I cannot do better than call j-our attention to the 

 following suggestions of our kind friend, Mr. Salter, in a letter to myself : — " We 

 shall never really know what the true nature of our boundary lines is until people 

 of leisure will note on their maps the facts as they arise. May I beg you, in the 

 name of science, to do this for your district — a yellow colour for Do\vnton — a blue 

 for Ludlow — a brown for Passage-beds, dotted down in the exact spots where 

 they occur, would point to the true arrangement of the faults and anticlinals in 

 a way that no guess work in London could do ; then, when such coloured spots 

 increased in number, a visit from any practised field-worker would clear up whole 

 lines of work, and oiu: maps would begin to look like what no other country has 

 done. There is a special reason for doing so on the borders of Siluria and Devonia, 

 since the information is all valuable among Transition beds." I would suggest, 

 in addition, to any members of the Club who may carry out Mr. Salter's sugges- 

 tions, that they will do the Club a great service if they will bring the maps on 

 which the facts have been so noted to the Field Meetings, in order that their 

 notes may be there compared and criticised, and the result recorded on a map 

 belonging to the Club. 



