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Notes on the Binney Collection of Coal-Measure Plants. By 

 A. C. Seward, MA. 



Part I. Lepidophloios. 



Text-figures 1—5 ; Pis. III. and IV. 



1. Introductory. 



The object of these notes, which it is proposed to publish in 

 parts in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, is 

 to draw attention to some of the more important specimens in 

 the Binney Collection, which throw fresh light on species of 

 Palaeozoic plants previously described, or illustrate structural 

 features hitherto unrecorded. The Binney Collection, including 

 the majority of the sections figured by the late E. W. Binney in 

 his contributions to the Royal, Palaeontographical, Geological 

 and other Societies between 1862 and 1872, was presented to the 

 Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, in 1892 by Mr J. Binney of 

 Trinity Hall 1 . Some of the species represented in the collection 

 have been repeatedly investigated during the last few decades, and 

 the material in the Woodwardian Museum does not enable us to 

 add any facts of importance to those already known. Other species 

 are represented by unusually well-preserved specimens, which 

 illustrate morphological points not previously noticed or afford 

 additional data of phylogenetic importance. In cases where the 

 original blocks or nodules have been preserved from which Binney's 

 sections were obtained, new slices have been cut by Mr Lomax of 

 Bolton and Mr Chapman of London. I may here express my 

 indebtedness to Prof. T. M c Kenny Hughes for facilities generously 

 afforded me in the examination of the collection and in the 

 preparation of new sections for microscopical examination. An 

 acknowledgment is due also to the Council of the Royal Society 

 for contributing towards the cost of preparing the figures illus- 

 trating the specimens dealt with in these notes. It is proposed 

 to append to the series of descriptive notes a list of the species 

 represented in the Binney Collection. 



1 Cambridge University Reporter, 1891—92, p. 939. 



