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on tlie banks of tlie Teme, near Downton, contain a " fisli bed," in 

 •wliicli have been found the Pterygotus, Euiypterus, Cephalaspis 

 Murcliisoni, Tnth the Ornichus and Lingulis. 



Our friend Mr. Symonds, has also brought into notice a fine 

 specimen of a crustacean allied to Eurypteras, which was discovered 

 by an intelligent working man at Eowlstone, near Ewyas Harold, in 

 this County, in a Sandstone bed of the upper Cornstones of the 

 "Old Eed" at Eowlstone, and which, through the kindness of the 

 Eev. Mr. "VVenman, in whose possession it now is, many of us have 

 had the opportunity to examine. 



Various fossils from this county and neighbourhood arc to be 

 described by Mr. Salter in the forthcoming number of the Decades 

 of the Geological Society. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for August, 

 1857, contains a description, by Sir E. Murchison and Sir P. 

 Egerton, of some entirely new fossil iishes, discovered by Mr. 

 Salwet and Mr. Lightbody ; by the former in the " Old Eed " of 

 Acton Beauchamp, and by the latter in the bone beds of Lucton. 



And last but not least, the discoveries of organic remains in 

 water, as low down in the scale as the Cambrian Eocks, has been 

 made in the neighbourhood of the Malvern Hills by Dr. Grindrod, 

 of Malvern. The green HoUybush Sandstone of the Malverns are 

 generally ranked as of Cambrian age, inasmuch as the black shales 

 above them contain Trilobites, found in other parts of Europe in 

 strata older than the base of the Llandilo flags. The fossils dis- 

 covered by Dr. Grindrod are the tubes of ancient marine worms, 

 which have been named "Arenicola Antiquissima." It would 

 appear more than probable, from certain specimens of Trilobites 

 associated with shells — which as we learn from the Edinburgh 

 Pliilosophical Journal were lately exhibited by Professor Dawa at 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as 

 having been discovered in a deposit called the Potsdam Sandstone 

 of the Cambrian age — that the Cambrian deposit was by no means 

 so destitute of life as has been generally supposed. 



