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wom corals, and fragments of encrinites; and subsequently, 

 the loose stones, formerly the defences of tlie hill, and the 

 quarries, also furnished me with many good specimens. At 

 the first general meeting of this society, I had the plcasure 

 of exhlbiting several large and handsome polished slabs, 

 füll of corals ; and some of them are still in our Museum. 

 No discovery of a fossil shell was made known untU within 

 the last three or four months ; indeed this is the first 

 public notice of such a discovery. 



In October last, Mr. J. H. Payne, one of our early 

 members, in searching for corals and madripores on Can- 

 nington Park, cracked a stone containing a beautiful valve 

 of a bivalve shell. The external surface only is exposed, 

 and one side of the beak is concealed ; the other side is 

 slightly winged, and the whole shell is marked with fine, 

 but well defined, longitudinal ridges — it is much like 

 Cardium Aliforme. I had the pleasure of showing this 

 interesting specimen to our Vice- President, the Earl of 

 Cavan, and bis lordship took an early opportunity of 

 going to the hiU in search of fossil shells, and succeeded in 

 finding three distinct species, difFerent from Mr. Payne' s, 

 viz., a large Productus, an Orthis, and a Terebratula. 



On the 17th of November I met bis lordship on the 

 hill by appointment, and spent, in diligent research, a cold 

 but bright and cheerful morning, on its sheltered southern 

 side. We found a large Productus, and several other 

 species of bivalves, which I believe agree with fossils in the 

 Mountain Limestone of Mendip. When Dr. Pring, Mr. 

 Moore, and myself, examined the Williams' CoUection, 

 at Bleadon, at the request of this society, we were sur- 

 prised at finding in one of the cabinets two or three 

 imperfect bivalves, labelled Cannington Park. These 

 fossils were no duubt found by the late Mr. Williams, 



