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General Meeting, December 1st, 1885. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.KS., President, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. Henry Jones, B.A., of Rnsholme, was elected an 
Ordinary Member of the Society. 
Ordinary Meeting, December 1st, 1885. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The PRESIDENT exhibited a remarkably fine specimen of 
the rare Schizopteris anomala of Brongniart, which he 
discovered amongst other coal plants collected by Mr. George 
Wild, of the Bardsley Colliery, near Ashton-under-Lyne. 
It was found in a bed of sandstone, cut through in an ex- 
tension of the Colliery. The plant was first figured and 
described by M. Brongniart in his Histoire des Y^getaux 
Fossiles, p. 384, pi. cxxxv., though the name was assigned 
to it as early as 1828 in his Prodrome d’une Histoire des 
Yeg^taux Fossiles, p. 63. His specimens, which were supplied 
to him from the Strasburg collection, by M. Yoltz, were ob- 
tained from the coal mines of Saarbruck. The characteristic 
features of this plant, as figured by Brongniart, consists first 
in its flat dichotomous leaves, and second in each ultimate 
sub-division terminating in a spherical, slightly oblong 
enlargement. Both these characteristics are well shown in 
the Bardsley specimens which, are apparently the first 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc.— Yol. XXY.— No 5.—Session 1885-6. 
