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Here is the list : James Kankin, Esq., president ; Dr. M'CulloUgh, and the 

 Kev. James Davies, of Moorcourt, vice-presidents ; J. B. Lee, Esq., Caerleon ; 

 R. Lightbody, Esq., Ludlow; the U-^v. J. D. La Touohe, of the Caradoc Club ; 

 Elmes Y. Steele, Esq., and Mr. Steele; John Lloyd, Esq. ; Dr. Bull; J. J. 

 Merriman, Esq., Kensington; Thomas Cam, Esq.; the Rev. R. H. Williams, 

 Byford; the Rev. W. P. Stanhope, Halm Laoy; John Lambe, Esq.; 0. G. 

 Martin, Esq. ; \Vm. Aston, Esq. ; the Rev. J. E. Jones Jlachen ; the Rtv. 

 Bernard Marshall, Blakemere ; the Rev. Geo. Metcalfe ; Edgar Williams, Esq., 

 London; David Lawrence. Esq., Pontypool ; the Rev. J. H. Jukes; the Rev. 

 W. Taprell Allen, St. Briavels ; the Rev. J. G. Ash, Beachley ; Mr. Andrews, 

 Bosbury ; and Mr. Arthur Thompson. 



The road for Garcoed was taken at once from the station, and in pleasant 

 converse it was quickly reached. Garcoed is a steep bank composed of Wenlock 

 Shale and covered with wood. Mr. Lee lead the way by a shady walk to the 

 locality where the now well known Homalonotus Johannis is found. A labourer, 

 named Crotty, who had repeatedly been similarly employed, had for an hour or 

 two previously been busy collecting from the river bed masses of the rook ready 

 to be closely e.xamined by the members. Hammers and chisels were at once at 

 work, and even a saw might be noticed as a very iiseful tool in the reduction of 

 some of the larger slabs. 



It was nearly an hour before a tr.ace of the Homalonofus could bo 

 found, but at length the first specimen fell to the careful hammer of R. 

 Lightbody, Esq. Mr. Lee soon came upon another portion, and in the course of 

 the next hour the steady perseverance of a young naturalist, Mr. Elmes Steele, 

 who remained there still at work when all the others had left, was rewarded by 

 the discovery of some excellent specimens, the best that were found during 

 the day. 



The Homalonotus was first discovered by a labourer at Usk » few years 

 since, who mentioned it to Mr. W. H. NichoU, then residing at that town, and 

 he brought it before the notice of Mr. Lee and other geologists. The specimen 

 drawn in the last volume of our Transactions by the late lamented Blr. Salter, 

 and now in the collection of Dr. Holl, is the finest which has yet been found. 



This locality also produces a large Mijtilus, one or two species of Pterinea, 

 Phacops caudatas and P. lomjlcaudatus, an Illcenus, and several Brachiopoda. 



After an hour's work, many of the party advanced along the bank a few 

 hundred yards and commenced an active search for the beautiful Ischadites, 

 which are found chiefly in this locality. Success, however, did not reward the 

 members, as no specimen was found ; in fact Mr. Lee, who acted as guide, stated 

 that he had been there probably nearly thirty times, but that only once had he 

 succeeded in obtaining Ischadites. A few yards further west there is a bed filled 

 with Atrypa tumida. Some of the specimens are full of limestone, but in many 

 cases the interior is hollow, being only partially filled with crystals of spar which 

 cover not only the inside of the shell but also the spiral appendages well known 

 to belong to these bracheopoda. If the fracture is fortunate, the dark spiral, or 



