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Ordinary Meeting, November 12th, 1878. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
E. W. Binney, V.P., F.R.S., said that on the 22nd 
January last he communicated to the Society a Notice of a 
Fossil Plant found at Laxey, in the Isle of Man, which was 
published immediately in the Proceedings. Now in Nature 
of the 81st of October appears a letter from Dr. Dawson, 
F.R.S., dated McGill College, Montreal, October 5, 1878, as 
follows: “ A Fossil Plant — Misquotation. In an article on 
a fossil plant from the Isle of Man in Nature, Yol. XVIII, 
p. 555 (September, 1878), the following sentence is attribu- 
ted apparently on the authority of Mr. Leo Lesquereux to 
my Report on the Devonian and upper Silurian plants of 
Canada ‘ that these fragments are probably originating in 
the upper Silurian of Gaspe ; that as they are found in the 
lower part of the limestone which underlies the Devonian 
Gaspe sandstone and become more abundant in the upper 
beds, this suffices to indicate the existence of the neighbour- 
ing land probably composed of Silurian rocks and supporting 
vegetation.’ On referring to the report in question I find 
that the original of this strange statement stands as follows : 
‘ These remains of Psilophyton occur in the lower part of the 
limestone but are more abundant in the upper beds, and 
they suffice to indicate the existence of neighbouring land 
probably composed of lower Silurian rocks and supporting 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc.— Vol. XVIII.— No. 3.— Session 1878-9. 
