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8th December, 1875, of an average thickness and first-rate 
quality. This being the first occasion of the Silkstone seam 
being proved below the Barnsley, and with such favourable 
results, caused great rejoicing to all interested in the future 
welfare of the district, and set at rest for ever the doubts as 
to whether the Silkstone seam would be found workable at so 
great a depth. 
The importance of this fact can hardly be over-estimated, 
conferring, as it does, a new and lengthened life upon the 
South Yorkshire coal-field, which now undoubtedly contains 
as large and valuable a store of mineral wealth as any other 
coal-field in the United Kingdom ; and as the Silkstone seam 
becomes more developed I sincerely trust and believe that 
the town of Barnsley, occupying, as it does, such a central 
position, will reap the benefit, and thereby increase its trade, 
wealth and population. 
%* Publication of sections illustrating this paper deferred. 
ON FOSSIL FUNGI FROM THE LOWER COAL MEASURES OF 
HALIFAX. BY WILLIAM CASH, F.G.S., AND THOMAS HICK, 
B.A., B.Sc. (Lond.). 
In a previous communication to this Society, read at the 
Wakefield meeting, on October 28th, 1878, we placed on 
record a list of plants whose remains have been discovered in 
the Lower Coal Measures of the parish of Halifax. At that 
time the only representative in our possession of the great 
group of Fungi was a small fragment of the mycelium of some 
undetermined species, for which, as for the other specimens, 
we were indebted to Mr. James Binns. Since then, Mr. 
Binns's indefatigable industry has been rewarded by the 
discovery of additional examples of fossilised fungoid growths, 
which, though scarcely in sufficient perfection for complete 
identification, have many interesting characters so well pre- 
served as to be deserving of a detailed description. The 
