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its fruit, Halonia and other fossil plants from that locality." By 

 C. W. Peach, A.L.S. 



Abstract. — Mr. Peach stated that he went to Falkirk for a summer 

 ramble amongst the Coal-measures there, having long wished 

 for such an opportunity. His son, Mr. B. N. Peach, of the 

 Geological Survey, pointed out where he should work, and at once 

 he set to. He commenced amongst the black shales of No. 1 Station 

 Pit, and at the brick work a little beyond. It was however at the 

 Cleuch, near Glen Village — a little more than a mile from Falkirk — 

 amongst the grey shales from Coxroad jDit, that he spent the most 

 time and got the best and most interesting fossils. He exhibited a 

 diagram and pointed out the position of these places in order of 

 sequence. The Miller Coal and Johnston's Oil shale, being the 

 highest ; the craw coal next ; and then the splint coal of No. 1 

 Station Pit and the brick work ; at the latter place there is a splendid 

 section, and from its being worked " opencast," the Boxilder-clay, 

 shales and mussel-band, coals and sandstones, are laid open to 

 daylight, and thus all the strata down to the Coxroad coals may be 

 seen in section, giving a key to the geology of the neighbourhood. 

 The strata being flat over the whole district, the same beds are 

 constantly recurring. He next referred to the diagram to show that 

 the above beds overlaid the position of the gas coals at Lesmahagow, 

 and the edge coals of Edinburgh, and added that although he in- 

 tended to say most about the plants, he wished to mention that he 

 had got in shale at Pirley, near Falkirk, a spine or two of an 

 Acantli/odes. At Lesmahagow, several nice specimens of Acanthodes 

 in the gas coal and black-band of Auchenheath ; and in the Parrot 

 coal of Loanhead, near Edinburgh, a great number of Acanthodes, 

 one being the A. Wardii of Egerton, this splendid spined and well- 

 marked fish being far from rare there, and thus is now known both 

 at Edinburgh and Glasgow, and is probably plentiful in the Scotch 

 Coal- districts. He said he had many other fishes — some he believed 

 new — and other things from the coals ; these he reserved for the 

 present. He then entered into a long description of the fossil plants 

 of Falkirk district, and especially mentioning AnthoUthes Pitcairnice 

 and its fruit Cardiocarpon, which he had found attached; Calamites 

 nodosus, Lepidodendron, Halonia, Ulodendron, and Flabellaria borassi- 

 folia, etc. These he fully described, and produced a splendid col- 

 lection of specimens in all stages, illustrated with drawings and 

 recent plants for comparison. He especially referred to the obliga- 

 tions he was under to Mr. Carruthers, of the British Museum, for his 

 excellent papers on fossil botany, and to Principal Dawson for his 

 Acadian Geology, he having derived the greatest assistance from 

 these gentlemen's labours ; and after showing how much the Flora 

 and Fauna of the Coal-fields of Acadia agreed both generically and 

 specifically with our own, concluded by thanking Messrs. Dougall 

 and Potter and Mr. Walker, coal proprietors, to whom he felt deeply 

 grateful, not only for freely allowing him to work, but assisting 

 personally to help him in every possible way. 



