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It agrees closely in the f orm of its swimming feet with the American and Russian 

 Eurypteri, having the same intecalated plate between the ultimate and penulti- 

 mate joints, and also the minute terminal palette at the end of the 7th segment. 

 Numerous detached endognathary palpi occur associated with this form, furnished 

 with short recurved spines arranged in pairs upon each segment, doubtless 

 referable to the same species. 



I have proposed to name this form Eurypterus BrodUi after its discoverer. 

 [See British Association Eeports, Liverpool, 1870.] 



These shales contain a species of Coral ( Actinophyllum ?) not very common, 

 but I could not observe any shells or Berychia which characterise them else* 

 where, and only a few Leperditia. 



In addition to the Lycopodites there are other plants which I sent to Mr. 

 Carruthers, of the British Museum, for determination. He informs me, 

 "though very interesting they are rather fragmentary, and, therefore, like most 

 fossil plants, difficult to determine. The best marked is a dichotomously 

 branching plant, which would be referred to an Alga by most botanists. I believe, 

 however, it is a true land plant, which has had vascular tissue in its composi- 

 tion, and a sufficiently indurated structure to resist decomposition. It may 

 belong to Dawson's genus Psilophyton ; but more specimens are necessaty 

 before this could be determined. There are several bodies which look like 

 seeds, but are more probably Sporangia. They are certainly land plants." It 

 need scarcely be remarked that the occurrence of terrestrial plants, some of 

 which may very possibly be new, in addition to those curious bodies long ago 

 described by Dr. Hooker, and referred by him to Lycopodium, is a matter of 

 much interest in strata of this age. 



I have not been able to find any traces of the numerous fish discovered at 

 Ledbury and Ludlow, but is is possible that a closer and longer search would 

 detect them. At Prior's Court, about a mile south-west of this spot, there is a 

 small exposure of Sandstones showing about two feet of divided beds of yellow 

 Sandstone, with carbonaceous remains, resting on the Upper Ludlow, but no 

 " Olive Shales." At none of these places could I detect the "Bone Bed "which has 

 long since been noticed at Hagley, not far from this point on the north-east 

 first by the late Mr. Scobie, an active member of the Woolhope Field Club, 

 and afterwards by my lamented friend the late Mr. Strickland, where, many 

 years ago, in company with the latter and Sir K. Murchison, we fouid tke 

 "Bone Bed " and numerous remains of Pterygotus, but these were in the Ludlow 

 rock and not in the passage beds which occur there, according to my friend 

 Mr. Symonds, who states that they are present at this quarry. He says that the 

 passage of the upper Ludlow rock with its ' ' Bone Bed " may be observed here with 

 the yellow Downton beds, succeeded by red marls precisely similar to those in the 



