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thin veins of what was supposed to be anthracite were 

 met with in the metaliferous lodes at Laxey, and a lode 

 of impure graphite at Ballacraine. [Sir W. W. Smyth 

 also mentions the Laxey anthracite in his list of Manx 

 minerals ( Trans. Isle of Man Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. i., p. 143) as 

 "a 3-inch band on the east wall of Laxey-lode, 100 fathom 

 level, south of engine shaft, very pyritous." — G. W. L.] 



Profs. Harkness and Nicholson* in 1866 recorded the 

 finding of Palceochorda major. 



Mr. E. W. Binneyf next took up the work in 1877, 

 and published figures and descriptions of worm tracks 

 which he named Nemerites monensis and Neretites 

 monensis respectively. Worm-burrows {Scolites^ were 

 also mentioned and certain oval structures , which he 

 supposed had some faint resemblance to Lingulce, but 

 which Mr. Lamplugh thinks may have been the cross- 

 sections of worm-casts. 



Whatever these latter may have been, one was some- 

 what doubtfully referred by Binney to Lingulella davisii. 



In the succeeding year Binneyj figured and described 

 the supposed fucoid found in the glacial drift at Laxey, 

 and from a superficial resemblance of the specimen to 

 Psilophyton cornutum of Lesquereux, he was led to name 

 it Psilophyton monense. In a later communication, 

 Binney§ states that Dr. Dawson was of opinion that the 

 supposed plant more nearly resembled Buthotrephis 

 harknessi of Nicholson ; it is well to bear in mind, 



* Loc. cit. ante, 



t " A Notice of some Organic Remains from the Schists of the Isle of 

 Man." Proc. Manch. Lit. df Phil. Soc, Vol. xvi., 1878, p. 102. 



{"Notice of a Fossil Plant found at Laxey, in the Isle of Man." 

 Proc. Manch. Lit. and Phil. Soc, Vol. xvii., 1878, p. 85, and Manch. 

 Memoirs, 3rd Series, Vol. vi., 1879, p. 214. 



§ " Remarks on a Fossil Plant found at Laxey, in the Isle of Man." Proc. 

 Manch. Lit. and Phil. Soc, Vol. xviii., 1879, p. 19. 



