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FIRST FIELD MEETING. 

 Joint Meeting with the Malvern Club, May 23RD and 24TH, 1S61. 



LUDLOW, MOCKTRE, LEINTWARDINE. 



The members of the Woolhope and Malvern Naturalists' Field Clubs met at 

 Ludlow on Thursday, May 23rd, for two Field Days. The first day's excursion 

 was to examine the Caradoc beds up the Onny Valley, and also at Marsh Brook 

 and Acton Scott. The Malvern friends, who arrived on Wednesday night, 

 proceeded by the train at 8 o'clock next morning to Marsh Brook, and from 

 thence walked to a quarry near Acton Scott, of the Middle Caradoc formation, 

 which is rich in fossil remains. There the members procured Phacops conoph- 

 thalmus, Orthis vespertilio, Orthis unguis, Ortkis actonia, Strophomena grandis, 

 Bellerophon bilobata, and Leptaena serricea. Thence the members retraced their 

 steps to Marsh Brook, and examined the sections along the Horderley road. 

 Those nearest the railway station are Caradoc, containing the usual remains, 

 and a little further on are the lower beds of the Longmynd or Bottom Rocks, 

 all the beds of which were considered to be unfossiliferous until Mr. Salter, about 

 two years ago, discovered worm tracks, and a portion of a trilobite, in the blue 

 beds immediately overlying these Olive Shales. 



A little further along the road is a large quarry of Bala Limestone (where 

 the members from Hereford were met), the beds of which are all tilted up nearly 

 vertical, and on the lower side of the quarry the lowest beds of Caradoc formation 

 lie conformable to it, containing several scarce and new organisms, such as 

 Trinucleus concentricus, a new Asaphus, a new Fenestella, and several other 

 remains ; from the Bala Limestone were procured several specimens of a new 

 Lingula. 



Thence, crossing the river Onny by the stepping stones, and proceeding by 

 the side of the river, they examined the loose stones that are thro\vn down from 

 several quarries of the Horderly Flags or Middle Caradoc, amongst which the 

 beautiful Oak-fern, Polypodium dryopteris, grows most luxuriantly. 



• About a mile further down the stream (though up the beds) the celebrated 

 Onny section was reached, showing the Purple Shale or Lower Wenlock, the 

 Pentamerus Limestone, and the uppermost beds of the Caradoc, all in one con- 

 tinuous section. From the Caradoc were procured some fine specimens of 

 Trinucleus concentricus, and from the Purple Shale, Orthis biloba, Encriniius 

 punctatus, Leptaena laevigata, Atrypa reticularis, and Petraia bina. The Pen- 

 tamerus Limestone is here a very thin band, containing only Pentamerus undata. 



