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Members took part, and the Meeting separated: some devot, 
ing the time before dinner to examining the Museum, and 
others paying a visit to the Lower Keuper quarries at Coten 
End. The Members dined together at the Woolpack, at 5 
o'clock. 
The first Summer meeting of the season was held at Kid- 
derminster on the 22nd of May, 1860, to meet the Worces- 
tershire Naturalists’ Field Club. At the station at Kidder- 
minster the Members of the two Clubs assembled, and 
started under the able guidance of “Mr. G. Roberts, the 
intelligent local Geologist of the di8trict. Proceeding to 
Bewdley, by omnibus, the party examined, first, Bunter Sands, 
one layer of which shews a re-disposition of Permian Glacial 
Drift, a kind of Trappean Breccia, a point of great interest to 
the Geologists ; not far off the upper coal measures are ex- 
posed, in a small section on the railway from Bewdley to 
Bridgenorth—a thin band of fern coal was here seen, with 
a layer two feet thick, fissile yellow clays overlaying it, and 
charged with numerous remains of plants, among which two 
or three new species of Sphenopteris have been found, some 
of the fronds shewing, though rarely, traces of fructification. 
Sphenopteris bifida and affinis. Pecopteris oreopteroides, 
Serli and Adantoides, and some pretty forms of Asterophyl- 
htes, besides impressions of reeds, are the most prevalent 
plants. Woodwardites Roberisii, a new genus and species, 
occurs in a bed of more compact shales a little above, the 
layers of which are too friable to yield leaves of any size or 
perfection. Following the line of rail through these upper 
coal measures, the olive shales were next seen, with Sphe- 
nopteris massilenta and muricata, and Neuropteris gigantea, 
which rest conformably on the Old Red Sandstone of the 
Hill Wood. The point where the line cuts through the old 
