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On Monday, June 20th, the Club met at Cleobury 
Mortimer, Shropshire. Arriving at nine p.m. they were 
hospitably entertained at supper by Weaver Jones, Hsq., 
the only local Geologist. On Tuesday, after breakfasting 
. with the Rev. S. Lowndes, he kindly drove the party to 
Farlow, where, in company with the Rev. J. Williams, the 
Rector, they examined the famous quarry of yellow sand- 
stone, the upper part of the old Red Sandstone, and the 
equivalent of the beds at Dura Den, in Scotland. Though 
not very successful, they discovered a tooth and scale of 
Holoptychius, and two imperfect portions of the body of 
the new British Pterichthys, the only locality in England 
where it has been met with. It is uncertain whether it 
oceurs’in a particular bed which after careful search could 
not be met with in situ, or whether it occurs indiscriminately 
throughout the more solid blocks of stone, which forms a 
’ tolerably good material for building. The strata at the 
pit are somewhat, though only slightly, disturbed, but 
ascending the hill, the junction beds with the Mountain 
limestone were exposed, dipping at a high angle conformable 
to the Old Red. 
Proceeding thence to Oreton, some time was spent in 
examining the fine sections of Mountain limestone, which 
forms a continuous anticlinal ridge for some distance, with 
the Old Red on one side, and the Carboniferous on the 
other. The Mountain limestone is much faulted and 
disturbed, hence the dip is very irregular; in places the 
strata are nearly vertical, especially in an old quarry near 
Farlow Church, but in others are very little inclined, even 
in the same section. Corals and shells abound, but the 
species seem to be limited, and neither so numerous nor 
