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Oleni ; and I believed that we failed in finding them from the want 

 of a good pick-axe, which I would recommend to all geologists who 

 are disposed to attempt the task in which we were defeated. 



" Caradoc Conglomerate and Purple Shales,'" ^c. No. 4. — We 

 were very reluctantly compelled, from want of time, to give up 

 our examination of the whole section from the south end of the 

 Syenite hills, over Howler's Heath, to the Woolhope limestone. 

 We therefore left this section half-finished, and made a traverse to the 

 Eastnor Park Section, wishing especially to examine the well-known 

 fossiUferous quarries, in the brow of the hill on the south side of the 

 obelisk. " The thick, soft, purplish, and grey and brown sandstones 

 under the obehsk are (as Professor Phillips states *) a good example 

 of a part of this group" (No. 4). Fossils are very abundant in this 

 locality, first brought into notice by Sir R. I. Murchison. We col- 

 lected, almost exclusively from one well-known quarry, the folloAving 

 species : — 



Favosiies Gothlandica (W.). Hemithyris diodonta (W.) { = bi- 



Stenopor a fibrosa (W.). dentata). 



Cornulites serjmlar'ms (W.). lacunosa (W.). 



Spirigerina marginalis (W.). Strophomena englypha (W.). 



reticularis (W.). Pterinea reirofleoca (W. var. de- 



Pentamerus galeatus (W.). missa). 



Orthis elegantula (W.). Area Eastnori (not known else- 



hybrida{^.). where). 



Leptcena minima (W.). Orthoceras annulatum (W.). 

 Lingula, sp. 



" An examination of the fossils from this locality in the Collection 

 of the Government Survey in Jermyn Street failed to afford us any 

 trace of the Bala and true Caradoc fossils (quoted in Prof. Phillips's 

 Memoir, p. 61), with the Wenlock types which we found; and as 

 Lingula attenuata is marked there as abundant, and as we found 

 abundant remains of an undescribed Lingula, certainly distinct from 

 that species, it is just possible that the two references may be to the 

 one object. It is possible also that the Caradoc Orthis bilobata may 

 be a misprint for the Wenlock Orthis biloba." (Professor M'Coy.) 



So far as it goes, this list is, we think, decisive ; and it seems to prove 

 that Nos. 4 & 5 of the vertical section must be the very near equi- 

 valents of the May Hill series ; and, therefore, true Upper Silurian 

 or Wenlock sandstone f. On the scheme of Professor Phillips, the 

 groups (to No. 5 inclusive) are called Caradoc. On the scheme of 

 the " Silurian System," all the groups (as far as No. 6 inclusive) are 

 called Caradoc. If we assume the old nomenclature, we are led into 



* Memoir, p. 57. 



f As we had not time to complete our section over Howler's Heath, and as 

 Professor Phillips has given no separate list of fossils from that locality, we may 

 subjoin the following list of Howler's Heath fossils, made from the drawers of the 

 Geological Survey in Jermyn Street, to which a liberal access was granted : — 



Petraia bina (W.). Orthis elegantula (W.). 



TentacuUtes ornatus (W.). Leptayonia depressa (W.). 



Encrinurus punctatus (W.). Leptcena Icemgata (W.). 



Spirigerina reticularis (W.). Strophomena pecten (W.). 

 Pentamerus lens (May Hill). 



