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Caerleon ; Canon Hawkins, Llandaff ; Dr. Bull ; the Eev. K. H. Williams, 

 Byford CoL Cunningham ; the Rev. H. T. Hill, of Felton, and Mr. Walter 

 Hill ; the Rev. W. C. Fowle, Brinsop ; the Rev. B. S. Dawson, Yazor ; E. J. 

 Stone, Esq., Chambers Couit, Worcestershire ; the Rev. Thomas Phillipps, 

 Dewsall, and Mr. Jacob Phillipps ; the Rev. E. Du Buisson ; T. Curley, Esq., 

 F.G.S.; the Rev. D. J. George, Trelough ; Colonel Symonds, Pengethly; the 

 Rev. C. J. Westropp ; the Rev. Thos. West, Fownhope, and C. H. Gardiner, 

 Esq. ; the Rev. J. Jones Machen ; the Rev. Arthur Gray, Orcop ; James Davies, 

 Esq., Hereford; the Rev. A. G. Jones, Yarkhill; D. R. Harrison, Esq., Holmer 

 Hall, and Joseph Seymour, Esq. ; E. B. Fitton, Esq., of the Malvern Club ; Dr. 

 J. H. Wood, Tarrington; Wm. Aston, Esq., and J. T. Owen Fowler, Esq., 

 Hereford ; the Rev. W. R. Lawrence, Ewyas Harold ; the Rev. Bernard 

 Marshall, Blakemere ; David Lawrence, Esq., Pontypool ; J. Carless, Esq., Town 

 Clerk, Hereford ; the Rev. Alfred Phillipps, Abbey Dore ; E. J. Husbands, Esq., 

 and Mr. E. Tibbetts Husbands, Pontrilas ; the Rev. J. P. Bellingham ; Mr. 

 James W. Lloyd and Mr. Brothwood, Kington ; Masters Ernest, Alexis, and 

 Henry Power Bull ; and Mr. Aithur Thompson. 



When dinner was over, the President called upon Dr. M'Cullough to 

 exhibit some fossils to the meeting from the quarries they had visited. 



NEW FOSSILS. 



Dr. M'Cullough first showed a large specimen oi the Pterygotus taurinus 

 (Salter), which had been foimd in the upper quarry on the common. This wa» 

 the only specimen that had been found. It had not yet been fuUy described, but 

 he trusted that it would be shortly. 



He then exhibited a crustacean of still higher interest, which he had obtained 

 a few days before from the Rowlestone quarry. So far as could be judged, it was 

 quite different from any fossil before found. The upjier surface was sulcated, 

 and thickly studded with tubercles, and at the sides the swimming feet 

 were well seen in section. The carapace was very distinct. An exact and scien- 

 tific description will doubtless be shortly given. When this is done, and the 

 creature has received its name, it will be introduced again to the notice of the 

 Club. 



THE NEST OF A KING-FISHEE ( Alccdo ispida) 



Was then sent round for examination. It consisted of a quantity of small fish- 

 bones rejected from the gullet of the bird. Dr. M'Cullough had found the nest 

 in a bank on the Monnow having frequently observed the old birds in the neigh- 

 boui'hood. A cow had unfo:tunately put her foot on the earth above the nest, 

 crushed it in, and killed the four young birds it contained. The hole in the bank 

 in which it was built was some six feet above the ordinary water-level of the river. 

 It was made in the perpendicular bank, a foot below the surface of the soU, was 

 about two feet in length, and sloped obliquely upwards to within about two inches 

 of the grass ; here a wider space, some six inches in diameter, was hollowed out. 



