kindly and promptly acquiesced in my request, and I have to thank 

 Mr. Suter, Mr. Barker, and Lord Ducie for the loan of those fossUs 

 which I had the honour of exhibiting. There is a distingmshed 

 botanist, who is also, I am happy to say, an active geologist, a member 

 of our Club, who, since the meeting of the British Association has 

 found time and energy to follow up our discovery between Ludlow 

 and Leominster-I allude to my friend Mr. Crouch, of Pembndge.- 

 This gentleman has managed to collect, in a few short months, the 

 most valuable series of Cornstone fishes it has ever been my lot to 

 examine, with the exception of those in Mr. Hugh Miller's cabinet. 

 Sir Phillip Egerton, the British ichthyologist, having kindly 

 offered to examine any specimens I could forward, I sent hini tho.o 

 belon-in^^ to Mr. Crouch, and they now lie on the table. Sir 1 h.Up, 

 as you mav see, has already determined three species of Cepha aspis 

 from the quarries of Leyster Sprowle, all of which are identical with 

 the Scotch organisms. . 



As these fossil remains all appertain to the Cornstone, or middle 

 group of the Old Ked Sandstone, I would here revert shortly to 

 those deposits as they occur in this immediate neighbourhood. 

 Wherever in the Hereford district (of course always excepting 

 Silurian upthrows, such as Woolhope and Dormington hills) you see 

 verdant and wooded hill, there is the Cornstone formation, with its 

 yallies denuded in the softer marls, and the hills made up of con- 

 cretionary nodules and gritty sandstones. The fact that these hills 

 have been preserved from destruction is owing to the hard impure 

 limestone nodules of which they are composed. Occasionally the 

 land of the Cornstone is spoiled by its contiguity to the upper beds 

 of the mountain ranges, or the rocks of the Silurian region. In the 

 parishes of Almeley and Lyonshall, and the upper part of Eardisley, 

 for instance, whole tracks are rendered barren by the boulder stones 

 and coarse gravel, composed of Silurian and trap rocks drifted from 

 the neighbourhood of Kington and Aymestry. 



The valley of the Wye is a deep denudation in the Cornstone beds ; 

 and the strata of Wall Hills, near Ledbury, Dinedor, near Hereford, 

 Moccas, the hills of Weobley, Leominster, Bromyard, and Tenbury, 

 were all once contimcous. I suspect that the men of Herefordshire 

 have very much to thank their Cornstones for, and that peroxide 



