L8yearsago under the guidance of Mr. Lewis. With kind consideration the 

 key of the rooms in which Mr. Lewis's fossils are still kept was placed at the 

 disposal of the club, and now, as then, they were open to examination. The 

 offer was gratefully appreciated, but as it could not be done justice to — con- 

 sid ring the long route before the club— it was thought better to go at once to 

 the quarry. Here some men were at work, and every opportunity was afforded 

 to examine the nature of the stone, and secure some of the characteristic fossils. 

 The very full attendance at the meeting became very evident as the members 

 crowded into the quarry, " Thick as locusts, blackening all the ground"; but as 

 they did not seem much inclined to hunt for the fossils, much less to get them 

 out, the President requested the Eev. W. S. Symonds, president of the Malvern 

 Field Club, to give them a brief address. 



Mr. SYMONDS, mounting the appropriate rostrum of a fine layer of 

 Aymcstrey limestone in situ, then said that it was impossible to stand in that 

 quarry and not be forcibly reminded of an old President of the Woolhope Club, 

 the Rev. T. T. Lewis, the first man who studied Silurian fossils, and who first 

 correctly e tablishcd the divisions of the upper strata of the Silurian rocks— and 

 of that master mind Sir Itodcrick Murchison, who taking Mr. Lewis's discoveries 

 as his ground work, succeeded by indomitable perseverance and energy in pro- 

 ducing that grand result, their complete arrangement, as the Silurian System. 

 Sir Robert Murchison was an old soldier. He was attached to a Herefordshire 

 regiment in the Peninsular campaign. After Waterloo had been fought and 

 won, and when a general peace was happily established, his active- mind could 

 not be at rest. He could not be idle, and having a natural taste for Geology he 

 went to the veteran Professor Sedgwick and asked him what was the most pro- 

 mising field of geological study. His answer was " Go down, Murchison, to the 

 borders of Herefordshire and Wales, you will find there the Graiiwacke, a series 

 of strata that nobody understands. Try to coordinate them. I will work at 

 the Cambrian rocks and we will see together what can be done to arrange 

 them." Thus did Sedgwick and Murchison, brothers in science, set to work, 

 and many a friendly struggle had they before they decided on the limits of 

 these rocks as we know them now. 



Sir Roderick came into Herefordshire, into the country of the ancient 

 Silures, and then it was that he had the good fortune to visit the Rev. T. T. 

 Lewis in this village, and the sagacity to point out to Mr. Lewis the grand 

 result towards which his facts and fossils so directly tended. Mr. Lewis's 

 information so freely, so unselfishly given, stimulated Sir Roderick's zeal to the 

 uttermost. He spared neither time, nor thought, nor money. His whole energy 

 was given to the subject, and when not at work with his hammer and pencil 

 in the field, he was using his pen with equal vigour and effect, and ceased not 

 until he had laid down a system, not for Herefordshire or Wales alone but for 

 the whole world. Mr. Symonds then entered into many details with reference 

 to the Silurian fossils, and concluded a very eloquent address by conveying 

 to the Club the hearty good wishes of Sir Charles Lyall with whom he had been 



