of Edinburgh, Session 1881-82. 
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marine representative of the lower part of the Carboniferous Lime- 
stone of England. 
2. Additional Contributions to our Knowledge of the Fossil 
Fishes of Eskdale and Liddesdale. By Dr. R. H. 
Traquair. 
3. Further Researches among the Crustacea and Scorpions of 
the Carboniferous Rocks of the Scottish Border. By 
Mr. B. K. Peach. 
4. Report on the Fossil Plants collected by the Geological 
Survey of Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale. By 
Robert Kidston. 
[Abstract.) 
Through the kindness of Professor Geikie, Director-General of 
the Geological Survey of Great Britain, I have had the pleasure of 
examining the fossil plants collected by the Scottish Geological 
Survey in Eskdale and Liddesdale. 
The collection contains about four hundred and fifty specimens, 
a number of which, however, were too imperfect for further identi- 
fication than that of the genus. 
Eight of the plants I believe to be new species, and a few of the 
others, as far as I am aware, are now recorded for the first time as 
occurring in Scottish rocks. 
The following., is a list of the genera and species ; those I con- 
sider to be new to science are marked with an asterisk : — 
PLANTS FROM ESKDALE AND LIDDESDALE, . 
( Ocdciferous Sandstone Series.) 
THALLOPHYTA. 
ALGiE. 
1. *Ch ondrites plumosa , Kidst. 
2. * simplex, Ividst. 
3 * Crossochorda ccirbonaria, Kidst. 
4 .* Bythotrephis, sp. 
FILICACEiE. 
Sphenopteride,e. 
5. Sphenopteris linearis, Brong. 
6. jurcata, Brong. 
