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Again, in the latter end of 18138, beds of fossil shells were noticed in the 

 Black Band overlying the MynyddisUwjai coal, and some small organisms 

 being observed, and said by Mr. Charles Moore, F.G.S., of Bath, to be 

 entomostraca. 'J'l'ey were sent to ISIr. T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S., Professor of 

 (leology and Mineralogy at the Royal JNIilitary College, Sandhurst, who kindly 

 undertook to describe and name them. This pajoer is also published m the 

 last "Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society." 



I think I have now mentioned all the works on the fossils of this coal 

 basin, and I would desue to call the attention of the numerous workers in this 

 large field, workmen, agents at the various works, the professional men visit- 

 ing them, as well as the landowners, to a more thorough examination than 

 they have hitherto given ; and I believe it will ultimately prove that the dif- 

 ferent coal and iron-stone beds in the various localities will be more readily 

 compared than they now are. 



Through a correspondence with some working colliers in Northumber- 

 land, I have been able to compare the fossil fish remains of our Bottom Vein, 

 Pin Garrw, or Cribbwrfach coal, with a similar fish deposit over the equiva- 

 lent coal in Northumberland. These working men are not only collectors, 

 but they have prepared and mounted for me a large series of microscoiiical 

 .slides, showing the scales, teeth, jaws, bones, &c., of the fish remains of the 

 olden time ; and I believe the entomostracan bed over the Mj-nyddysllwyn 

 coal can be compared with a similar bed in Lancashu-e ; therefore, if true over 

 these large and widely separated areas, surely they may prove useful over our 

 own district. 



As to the iron manufacture of the present with past times, I have just 

 remembered a letter in the correspondence of Sir Edward Straddling, written 

 to him June 29th, 1586, by Sir George Sydenham, of Combsydenham, 

 Somersetshire, relative to an " anvil " which had been let or hired by Robert 

 Hensley, of Selworthy, Somersetshire, to Thomas SuUey, of St. Athens, in 

 Glamorganshu-e, for the term of one year, the rent of the year to be 3s. 4d., 

 " and if the said Robert, or any of his brothers, required the anvil \vithin the 

 year, then they were to give one quarter's warning or notice, and an equiva- 

 lent abatement to be made in the rent." 



In the Universal Marjazine, November, 17G3, an article entitled "A 

 Geographical Descrijjtion of Glamorganshu-e " contains this statement : 

 " Glamorganshire has no manufactures." 



Before co.icluding, permit me to make one more remark, and that in 

 regard to our Ortinance Survey map. That it is an admirable map no one can 

 deny. I have had opportunities of working wth it in several counties besides 

 our own district, and I do not remember a single case in which an inaccuracy 

 occurred ; yet such a long time has elapsed since it was geologically surveyed 

 — 30 years ago — and this district has been so much opened up, that a new 

 survey, on the 6-inch scale, is much needed. 



Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., of Harewood, Ross, the President for the 



