PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 
SOCIETY. 
Ordinary Meeting, October 1st, 1867. 
Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S, &c., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. E. W. Binney, F.R.S., &c., said that in the Dundee 
Advertiser of the 12th ultimo areport is given of someremarks 
on Calamitece and fossil Equisitaceoe, by Mr. William Car- 
ruthers, of the British Museum, who stated “ that the most 
important characters were obtained by botanists from the 
fructifications, and the author had obtained, through the 
kindness of Dr. Hooker, sections of vegetable structures 
prepared by Mr. Binney, whose extensive acquaintance with 
coal plants was well known. He had discovered in some of 
the fruits which belonged to Catamites so beautifully pre- 
served that the most minute details could be determined 
with the help of his diagrams in the various points in which 
they agreed from the fruits of the recent Equisitaceoe .” 
Now some twelve years since the specimens said to be 
“prepared” by him (Mr. Binney) were discovered and imme- 
diately slided, polished, and sent up to London to a most emi- 
nent scientific man, who had agreed to join him (Mr. Binney) 
in publishing a description of them, and whose name it was 
not then necessary to give. With the specimens sent up 
was written, 29th November, 1854, as follows: “You will 
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