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H. Delphinocephalus, which we were thus enahled to com- 

 pare with the new species. After inspection, of Mr. Nicholl's 

 Silurian and Devonian Fossils, we proceeded, despite of the 

 falling rain, to a small quarry at Llanhaddock, where innumer- 

 able Ludlow Fossils were found, amongst them many specimens 

 of Phacops Caudatus and Longicaudatus ; thence, along the 

 railway, through a cutting in the Wenlock- shale, where Atrypa 

 Heticularis is most abundant, we made our way to the Garcoed. 

 In the river bed, although the water was too deep, from recent 

 rains, for a good search, we were able to find Homalonotus 

 Johannis, and in the bank higher up the stream, many other fos- 

 sils of the Wenlock series. On our return to TJsk, we dined 

 together at the Three Salmons. Dr. Grindrod's beautiful speci- 

 men of the Homalonotus Delphinocephalus was passed round the 

 table, and I had the pleasure to thank that gentleman in the 

 name of the Club, for his kindness in joining our party and 

 giving us the opportunity of seeing so fine a Fossil. Mr. Lea, 

 of Caerleon, was our guide on the excursion, and his knowledge 

 of the locality and of its points of scientific interest, was of the 

 greatest service to us. 



There is a point which I desire to press upon your notice 

 in connexion with our , Field-days, and I do so because I am 

 quite convinced by my own experience, that much of the comfort, 

 and more still of the benefit to be derived from these meetings, 

 greatly depends upon a careful attention to it. I suggest that it 

 will be advisable in future to make it an invariable rule of the 

 Club that, the Itinerary for each day, shaU be arranged before- 

 hand, printed in the programme, and rigidly adhered to on all 

 occasions. Gentlemen arriving from a distance, being strangers 

 to the district, will naturally place themselves under the guidance 

 of their local associates whose help they look for. All who may 

 happen to stray wiU, by reference to the printed route, be enabled 

 to strike the line of march without difficulty. Alternative routes 

 are, I think, very objectionable, as tending to separate the party 

 and dislocate the arrangements made for the pleasure and enjoy- 



