beds of slialo were examined by the side of the oltl watercourse, 

 which were considered by Mr. Lightbody to be identical with the 

 upper passage beds in the raihoad cutting at Ludlow. These beds 

 are on a lower level than the Dowuton beds before referred to, and 

 may probably graduate upwards into the old red, but no opportunity 

 was afforded of ascertaining on what beds they repose. Supposing 

 that they are the upper passage beds, their relative position to the 

 DoAvnton beds, which were ascertained to lie here conformably on 

 upper Ludlow rock, can only be reconciled by the supposition of 

 the occurrence of a fault, which has placed these shales in a position 

 apparently inferior to the Downton beds. Eetracing our steps 

 for a short distance, our course was up the river, through the 

 beautiful and richly-wooded gorge of the Teme — the picturesque 

 rocks on either bank, in many places whitened by a calcareous 

 deposit, affording excellent sections of the upper Ludlow rock. 

 Near the Bowbridge a fine perpendicular escarpment of Aymcstry 

 limestone was passed ; — here the Botanists, who had separated to 

 pursue their researches in the Downton Castle grounds, rejoined 

 the party. Our course was now directed to Leintwardine. At 

 Trippleton a quarry of lower Ludlow was examined, and a fine 

 specimen of Ceratiocaris discovered. Near Leintwardine, either 

 side of the lane leading to Chm'ch-hill exposed beds of lower 

 Ludlow, in which numerous Graptolites and other characteristic 

 fossils occurred. At Church-hill, famous for having furnished 

 Pterj'gotus punctatus and many new species of star fishes (several 

 of which have been described and figured by Mr. Salter), the 

 day's excursion terminated. Here the custodians of the quarry 

 appeared, and offered for sale some fair specimens of star fishes, 

 Avhich ere now probably grace the cabinet of Professor Geinitz, 

 of Dresden, our companion during the day, whose able researches 

 in the Permian and lower Silurian strata of Saxony are so often 

 mentioned by Sir Eoderick Murchison in Siluria. I will not 

 quit the Church-hill quarry without expressing a wish that the 

 Club will use its influence to persuade the owner of the land in 



