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TllU GEOLOGIST. 
15o1h those arc now in (he rod sand of the neighbourhood. — [Extract of letter 
from J. E. Leo, Esq., Cacrltoii, Monni(Hi(lisliirc.] 
Extract oi'' a Lltter from a Ludlow Geologist. — Dear Sir, — I amuse 
myself over ilie (ire tliis eveuiug l)y writiug (witli a miserable pen) the results 
of our day's wirik. M . and I went from here this morning to Pcdwardine. 
and had (he good forluue (o lind plenty of (he J)ich/oitcma sociale. The Lin- 
gula beds are well shown in the bottom of the first cross lane from Brampton 
Brian dipping at about this angle fifty degrees to the west ; and the Llan- 
dovery beds cover them unconformably, with a gentle dip to the east. The 
first Llandovery bed is thin — two or three inches only — and of a yellow earthy 
character ; tiie next is a fine conglomerate bed (coarse sand and fine gravel), 
about five or six inches ; then a thicker earthy yellowish bed. Above this the 
rock is mixed up with soil and penetrated by roots, and becomes obscured. 
Nearly at the cast extremity of the Liugula (lags there is a crush, twisting the 
strata a little out of place ; and higher up the lane are seen the massive beds 
of coarse Llandovery conglomerate, the same that are seen at the bottom of 
Brampton Brian Park. 
We could find no trace of anything except Dietyonema, unless it be a small 
round shell, which I suppose may be a minute Lingula : it is quite smooth. 
Of this we found several. The Lingula beds are aU thin papery beds of fine 
smooth silt. 
We then crossed over, to try and find another place where M . had 
found IJicfijoneiiui, in the road leading up nnder Wigmore Bolls to Adforton, 
but could not meet with any. The only beds we could see were Wenloek 
Shale, and in general very barren, but in some places containing fragments of 
trUobites, &c. My friend declares that he found the very same Bidyoncma 
here, and in t hese same Wenloek beds ; but as the genus is known in strata of 
that age, in America, it is possibly another species. You will be glad to know 
of its occurrence here in any form. 
We have just got from the quarry here a fine specimen of Palorocrinus ferox 
showing the five arms ; the centre is a rotten mass, yet 1 think it is the best 
specimen, altogether, I have seen. Yon know that the Protaster Miltoni, (as 
well as P. vermiformis,) is fomid at Trippleton roadside quarry. We have also 
got from Trippleton a curious Bryozoan form like this, which we fancy to be 
something new. It is not unlike an encrinife with several heads on one stem. 
a a, Llandovciy Bods ; b, Lower Llandovery Beds. 
