241 



the members and visitors present (applause). Besides his own personal exer- 

 tions for thoii' entertainment, he deserved their thanks also for recommending 

 to them such an excellent first lieutenant, — (laughter,)— such a capital 

 conductor as Mr. David Giifiith had proved himself to be (applause). Mr. 

 Griffith had spared no effort to oblige them, and had done so with a readiness 

 and enthusiasm which could not be surpassed, and indeed which could only 

 have sprung from a real love of science. He begged also to give to Mr. Griffith 

 the thanks of the club for the trouble he had taken (applause). 



The President said he had only then to add that Mr. Griffith, Mr. 

 Powell, and Mr. Turner had provided selections of the best fossils of the 

 district, and would hand them round the tables in the course of the evening 

 for their inspection. Mr. James Lloyd, of Kington, has also brought a couple 

 of crossbills (Loxia curviroitra), or German parrot, as this bird is sometimes 

 called, which hiid lately been killed near Kington, to show them. These 

 birds were shot near Kington the first week in this month, and at the same 

 time a young bird was also killed, proving that they had bred in this county. 



The specimens of fossils exhibited were so fine and rare as to demand 

 some more special notice. On each tray a very fine Of/ygia Buchii was shown, 

 all of them being found at Harper's quarry, on the Wellfield estate, where 

 this trilobite is veiy abundant, but it is also found at several other places 

 in the neighbourhood— Gwerny fed, Cwmhenllan, Pencerrig, &c. Those found 

 at Harper's quarry, howe^•o^, Professor Sedgowick says he could distinguish 

 from a box full of others. On one tray there were some fair specimens of 

 Ogygia PortlocHi, and Aijnostus M'Coyii, from the Pencerrig quany. One 

 Trinucleiis fimbriatus, found at Gilwern-hill, near Llandriudod, was very 

 much admired, as was also one magnificent specimen of the Ogygia corndensis, 

 found by Mr. Turner on tbo same hill. This fossil is found in great abundance 

 at one particular spot, so much so, that every. handful of stone drawn out 

 will hold a considerable number of specimens. On this same hill was found 

 one of the IrinucUus conccnti-icus that was exhibited, the other being from 

 Cwm-henllan, as was also a very fine Trinucleus Lloydii, with the fringe and 

 spines very clearly marked. But speaking of spines, one Ampyx nudus was 

 exhibited with a spine nearly two inches long. 



From the Llandovery beds we observed one very good Pentamerus 

 ohlongus, but these beds ai e but very indifferently developed in this district. 

 From the Wenlock shale were exhibited some very fine and rare specimens of 

 the Cardiola interrupta and Cardiola fibrosa, found on the banks of the Wye, 

 about a mile eastward from the town, in close contact with the beds con- 

 taining Phacops Dai'iesii. Of this latter fossil (Phacops Davicsii) the first 

 specimen examined by Mr. Salter was found some years ago by one of the 

 ■workmen employed in making some alteration on the turnpike road leading 

 to Hay, and given to Mr. Griffith Davies, after which gentleman the fossil 

 was named by Mr. Salter. From another part of the Wenlock shale, at a 



