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bones of the Elephas primigenius (Mammoth) and Rhinoceros tichorrhinus were 

 there exhibited. Mr. Symonds favoured us, in his usual kind manner, with observa- 

 tions on the history of the Drift, and its evidences of early life. We then ad- 

 journed to Bromesberrow Rectory, where we concluded the operations of a most 

 agreeable day in doing justice to the refreshing hospitality of Mr. Hill, the Secre- 

 tary of the Malvern Club. 



Our last Meeting was fixed for the 28th of August, at Usk, and as generally 

 happens to us in that locality, our operations were seriously interfered with by 

 rain. We found much to interest us in the railway cutting, at the mouth of the 

 tunnel ; thence we proceeded to view the valuable collection of Fossils, from the 

 district, kindly ofiered to our inspection by Mr. William Nicholl. We saw a 

 great variety of specimens, including many capital Trilobites, some rare Brachio- 

 pods and Corals, and many of the Pteraspis and Cephalaspis, fishes of the Old 

 Red Sandstone. Amongst the Trilobites, conspicuous was Homalonotus, at first 

 supposed to be Delphinocephalus, but recently defined as a new species, which, 

 as far as I know, is peculiar to the Wenlock shale forming the bed of the Usk, 

 near Graig-y-Garcoed. This Fossil has been named by Salter, Homalonotus 

 Johannis, after the christian name of Mr. John Lee, of the Priory, Caerleon, one 

 of our Woolhopian Geologists, who with Mr. William Nicholl, first discovered 

 this interesting crustacean. Dr. Grindrod, of Malvern, attended our Field-day, 

 and brought with him from his own unrivalled collection, a splendid and perfect 

 specimen of the H. delphinocephalus, which we were thus enabled to compare 

 with the new species. After inspection of Mr. NichoU's Silurian and Devonian 

 Fossils, we proceeded, despite of the falling rain, to a small quarry at Llanbad- 

 dock, where innumerable Ludlow Fossils were found, amongst them many 

 specimens of Phacops caudatus and longicaudatus ; thence, along the railway 

 through a cutting in the Wenlock-shale, where Atr>T5a reticularis is most abun- 

 dant, we made our way to Garcoed. In the river bed, although the water was 

 too deep, from recent rains, for a good search, we were able to find Homalonotus 

 Johannis, and in the bank higher up the stream, many other fossils of the Wen- 

 lock series. On oiur return to Usk, we dined together at the Three Salmons. 

 Dr. Grindrod's beautiful specimen of the Homalonotus delphinocephalus was 

 passed round the table, and I had the pleasure to thank that gentleman in the 

 name of the Club, for his kindness in joining our party and giving us the oppor- 

 tunity of seeing so fine a Fossil. Mr. Lea, of Caerleon, was our guide on the 

 excursion, and his knowledge of the locality and of its points of scientific 

 interest, was of the greatest service to us. 



There is a point which I desire to press upon your notice in connexion with 

 our Field-days, and I do so because I am quite convinced by my own experience, 

 that much of the comfort, and more still of the benefit to be derived from these 

 meetings, greatly depends upon a careful attention to it. I suggest that it will 

 be advisable in future to make it an invariable rule of the Club that, the 

 Itinerary for each day, shall be arranged beforehand, printed in the programme, 

 and rigidly adhered to on all occasions. Gentlemen arriving from a distance, 

 being strangers to the district, will naturally place themselves under the guid- 



