I am able to recoid but few geological discoveries during the past 

 year within the district which the Woolhope Club considers to be 

 its own. 



The Ludlow bone-bed, since the publication of the Silurian Sys- 

 tem, has been considered to afiord the earliest traces of vertebrated 

 animals, but we now know that the lower Ludlow and upper 

 Ludlow rocks contain a species of Pteraspis, nearly allied to the 

 Pteraspides of the Downton sandstone, which have been definitely 

 placed among the Fishes by Professor Huxley, on a careful 

 comparison of their structure with that of Cephalaspis.* 



Mr. Lightbody, in a letter of some length, has kindly commu- 

 nicated to me the result of his labours ; among other discoveries 

 he mentions a new species of Ampyx, and a shell of small size, 

 which Mr. Salter considers to be a new genus allied to Siphonotreta 

 in the Caradoc shales of the Onny valley; a new species of Lingula 

 in the Bala limestone at Hordesley ; and a new species of Asaphus 

 found by Mr. Marston in the shales above this limestone. Mr. 

 Lightbody also tells me that Professor "Wyville Thompson^ is 

 writing on a new Echinosphasrites, found in Church-hill quarry, 

 somewhat similar in character, but larger and more spiny than 

 PaliBodiscus ferox. I regret that I am unable to refer at greater 

 length to the subject of ^Mr. Lightbody's letter, but I trust that he 

 will supply my omission by reading a paper at one of our meetings 

 for the present year. Mr. Crouch has met with Pterygotus 

 punctatus, and a species of Ceratiocaris in the lower Ludlow shales 

 of Bradnor wood, Kington. Mb. Salter, when he heard of it, 

 rej'jiced in the probable discovery of the zone of the Star fishes, 

 and spent a day during last summer with Mr. Crouch and Mr. 

 Lightbody, in a search for traces of them in these beds without 

 result. As none of the Old Eed fishes have been yet met with in 

 the neighbourhood of Kington, I may mention that I found, last 



* Huxley on Cephalaspis aud Pteraspis. Quarterly Journal, Geological 

 Society, vol. 14, p. 281. 



