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gentleman of the Club, who may be desirous to add them to their collection of 

 plants, if they will apply to him and name the kinds thfy wish. It will be 

 better for every one to name all the kinds he may want, and he would send 

 them what he could. 



The President, having resumed his seat, called upon one of the vice- 

 presidents, Elmes Y. Steele, Esq., to exhibit some geological specimens which 

 he had brought with him of a very interesting character. 



ELJfES Y. Steele Esq., after proposing a vote of thanks to Mrs. Miles 

 for her kind hospitality (applause), exhibited to the meeting an extraordinarily 

 fine fossil, obtained a few days before from a quarry of the Old Red rook, 

 about the middle of the eastern flank of the Scyrryd, near Abergavenny. 

 It consisted of the shield-protected head of one of the large fishes of the 

 Old Red seas, and was either a Cephalaspis or an Astrolepis. It was handed 

 round for inspection, with the characteristic advice from Mr. Lee, of 

 Caerleon, " Handle it tenderly as if you loved it," as Izaak Walton said of his 

 fish. The remarkable state of preservation, and the beautiful contrast between 

 the silvery sheen of the fish's "armour plates" and the dark red stone in 

 which it was embodied, made the fossil a striking as well as an interesting 

 object. 



The Rev. Henry Cooper Key, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Club, 

 next read the following paper. 



