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Furtlier I maj' observe, that my conduct ;it tlio Ludlow me(itiiig 

 1 laving been commented on, both verbally and in print, by some of 

 our friends, I am compelled, in seK-defence, to say that I felt bound 

 in courtesy to the learned President of the Malvern Club (who was 

 visiting our territory on that occasion), to consult his wishes as 

 much as possible; and though I fear it produced considerable 

 annoyance to some, it was my misfortune more than my fault, that 

 I could not be in two places at once. The inconvenience too, might 

 have been;lessened, if one of our Members, who knew the ground, 

 had accompanied us from Ludlow, instead of walking to Leintwar- 

 dine. Fortunately all our meetings of the past year were favored 

 with fine weather, except the last hour of our Tarrington meeting, 

 and a few light showers at Abergavenny. I am not aware that any 

 great discoveries were made on any of these occasions, but perhaps 

 I ought to give a glance at the ground passed over with more or 

 less interest. 



On the 23rd of May we left Ludlow by train for Marshbrook, 

 near which place, at Acton Scott, we examined the Caradoc beds, 

 which are there full of heads and tails of Phacops conophthalums, 

 as well as the usual Caradoc Orthides, &c. Thence we walked to 

 Horderley, passing on the Avay some very faulted ground, where we 

 found the Upper Llandovery partially shewn at "White Birches, 

 with its characteristic Petraia subduplicata, and traces of Pentamerus 

 oblongus. Some distance further along the road we came to beds 

 of the Lower Caradoc or Bala Limestone, which were thrown up on 

 edge between two faults, and do not contain many fossils. Imme- 

 diately after passing this we found ourselves on the barren Cambrian 

 rocks which sldit the way to Horderley turnpike. Near here we 

 were joined by some of the party from Hereford, who arrived too 

 late for our train, and had walked from the Craven Arms up the 

 valley of the Onny. After enjoying our luncheons, and a little 

 rest, we proceeded down the Onny, passing the prolongation of the 

 bed of Bala Limestone, at a quarry in which a number of fragments 

 of an unnamed Lingula, and one or two entire ones, were found. 



