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The insects, when sold by the late Mr. Capes, at his 
auction rooms in Manchester, realized the sum of £44 10s., 
and are now in the Peel Park Museum, Salford. 
Altogether nearly £150 was obtained for the widow. The 
last letter I received from the Professor was in the past 
summer, when he presented to the Society photographic por- 
traits of himself and his old friend the late Mr. Dawson, the 
mathematician of Sedbergh, which are placed in our meeting 
room. In the early days of the British Association he was 
probably the most eloquent and humorous speaker amongst 
its members, and few who had the pleasure of listening to 
his reply to Dean Cockburn in the Geological Section at 
York will ever forget it. 
Professor Williamson, F.R.S., stated that the second 
fossil plant described by Mr. Binney at the last meeting of 
the Society, on January 21st, and of which a notice appeared 
in the Society’s Proceedings, does not belong to some new 
genus, as Mr. Binney supposed, but is one that he has 
already described on two or three occasions as being the 
stem or branch of the well-known genus Asterophyllites, 
In his description of the Volkmannia Binneyi, published in 
the Society’s Transactions in 1871, respecting which Pro- 
fessor Williamson showed that it possessed a vascular axis 
exhibiting a triquetrous transverse section, the author gave 
his reasons for believing that the strobilus was the fruit 
of Asterophyllites. In a letter addressed to Dr. Sharpey 
on Nov. 16, 1871, and published in No. 131 of that Society’s 
Proceedings, Professor Williamson gave a brief description 
of a stem having a similar triangular vascular axis, with 
lenticularly thickened nodes, and which he again referred 
to the same verticellate leaved genus. In a second letter to 
Dr. Sharpey, dated May 3, 1872, the author confirmed the 
above conclusions by stating that he had “ got an additional 
