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part of each day at this point. After finding the first specimens, I 
went on the following day ; but, although I laboured for several 
hours, I did not succeed in obtaining a single specimen. On a sub- 
sequent occasion I was more fortunate, but yet the fossils are very 
rare. ‘The state of preservation of these shells is pretty good, and 
they may be referred to two species: one is a Brachiopod, like Discina 
rugata, but rather larger than the one figured by Sir R. I. Mur- 
chison, in his ‘ Siluria.’ This shell, in the typical district, ranges 
from the Wenlock to the Ludlow beds; and, according to this 
evidence, these beds must rank higher than has been hitherto sup- 
posed. The others may be referred to Moditolopsis, and the species 
much resembles J. orbicularis, which ranges from the Caradoe or 
Bala to the Llandovery Rocks. The occurrence of this shell seems 
to confirm the opinion held by Professor Harkness, that these beds 
are of the same age as the Caradoc Sandstone. 
This discovery is of some importance, as it points towards data on 
which the age of the beds may be decided. I have therefore thought 
it my duty to lay it before the Geological world as soon as possible. 
I am, Sir, &c., D. J. Brown. 
Norte Brings Street, Eprnsurcu. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRILOBITES.—We have received from Mr. E. J. 
Hollier, of Dudley, a lithographic plate of Trilobites of the natural 
size, characteristic of the Wenlock Shale and Limestone of Dudley, 
drawn from specimens in Mr. Hollier’s collection. There are 28 
figures of various species, from the great Homalonotus delphino- 
cephalus to the minute Cyphaspis megalops. But although inter- 
esting to local collectors, and also because they represent actual 
specimens, their execution is not equal to that of the figures given by 
Mr. J. W. Salter, in his monographs for the Paleontographical 
Society, and hardly does justice to the excellent specimens in Mr. 
Hollier’s cabinet, which they are intended to represent. 
OBITUARY. 
SAMUEL P. Woopwarp, Ph.D., A.L.S., F.G.S., Assistant-Palxonto- 
logist in the British Museum, and Examiner in Natural Sciences 
to the Council of Military Education, was born September, 17, 1821. 
He was the second son of the late Samuel Woodward, of Norwich, 
well known to geologists and antiquaries as the author of a ‘Geology 
of Norfolk’ (1833), ‘Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains’ 
(1830), a ‘History of Norwich Castle’ (posthumous, 1847), and 
various papers in the ‘Archzologia’ of the Society of Antiquaries. 
Shortly after his father’s death, he was temporarily employed (in 
1838) in the library of the British Museum, and in 1839 succeeded 
Mr. Searles Wood as Sub-curator of the Geological Society of Lon- 
don, and was elected a Member of the Botanical Society and an 
Associate of the Linnean. In 1845, he was appointed Professor 
of Botany and Geology in the Royal Agricultural College, Ciren- 
cester, and was one of the founders of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ 
