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Further, I may observe that my conduct at the Ludlow meeting having been 

 commented on, both verbally and in print, by some of our friends, I am compelled, 

 in self-defence, to say that I felt bound in courtesy to the learned President of the 

 Malvern Club (who was visiting our territory on that occasion), to consult his 

 wishes as much as possible ; and though I fear it produced considerable annoy- 

 ance to some, it was my misfortune more than my fault, that I could not be in 

 two places at once. The inconvenience, too, might have been lessened, if one of 

 our members, who knew the ground, had accompanied us from Ludlow, instead 

 of walking to Leintwardine. Fortunately all our meetings of the past year were 

 favoured with line weather, except the last hour^of our Tarrington meeting, and 

 a few light showers at Abergavenny. I am not aware that any great discoveries 

 were made on any of these occasions, but perhaps I ought to give a glance at the 

 ground passed over with more or less interest. 



On the 23rd of May we left Ludlow by train for Marshbrook, near which 

 pljfcce, at Acton Scott, we examined the Caradoc beds, which are there full of 

 heads and tails of Phacops conophthalmus, as well as the usual Caradoc Orthides, 

 &c. Thence we walked to Horderley, passing on the way some very faulted 

 ground, where we found the Upper Llandovery partially shewn at White Birches, 

 with its characteristic Petraia subduplicata, and traces of Pentamerus oblongus. 

 Some distance further along the road we came to beds of the Lower Caradoc or 

 Bala Limestone, which were thrown up on edge between two faults, and do not 

 contain many fossils. Immediately after passing this we found ourselves on the 

 barren Cambrian rocks which skirt the way to Horderly turnpike. Near here 

 we were joined by some of the party from Hereford, who arrived too late for our 

 train, and had walked from the Craven Arms up the valley of the Onny. After 

 enjoying our luncheons, and a little rest, we proceeded down the Onny, passing 

 the prolongation of the bed of Bala Limestone, at a quarry in which a number of 

 fragments of an unnamed Lingula, and one or two entire ones, were found. 

 These beds are almost vertical, and the shale lying above them is well worth a 

 close examination, as it contains, with abundance of Trinucleus concentricus, 

 several other rare or new Trilobites, — and abundance of Beyrichia complicata. 

 There has since been found here a new Beyrichia, which Mr. Rupert Jones has 

 called B. Wilkinsoni. We then crossed the Onny, and after passing the thick 

 hard beds of Horderley Sandstone, which in some of its layers contains abim- 

 dantly Bellerophon bilobatus, Leptaena serricea, Strophomena grandis, and 

 Modiolopsis orbicularis, — and, growing among the loose stones, great quantities 

 of the lovely Polypodium dryopteris, or oak fern, — we came to a road-cutting 

 leading to Cheney Longueville, where in one stratum is found the curious Sphaero- 

 spongia hospitalis, so named by Mr. Salter in commemoration of the hospitality 

 displayed by the kind-hearted Duppa Duppa, Esq. A little lower down the river, 

 we came to the Trinucleus shales, at the well-known Onny section, where the 

 slight unconformability of the superimposed Llandovery beds is seen. These 

 shales are full of heads and tails of Trinucleus, with rarely an entire one, and also 

 occasionally a head of Amphyx pennatus, and part of the head of Remopleurides 

 radians. The Upper Llandovery beds overlying these shales were inaccessible 

 without a wetting. They are very thin here, and are succeeded by the Purple 



