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Ordinary Meeting, October 21st, 1879. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.RS., &c,. President, in the 
Chair. 
Notes on some Fossils from the Iron Mines of Furness,” 
by E. W. Binney, V.P., F.B.S, F.G.S. 
In vols. YIII. and XII. of the Memoirs, and vol. VII. of 
the Proceedings of the Society are printed papers by me on 
iron ores and their origin. In the last I gave an opinion 
that the hsematite ores of Furness were of the age of our 
Lower Lancashire Coal Measures, owing to specimens of 
carboniferous plants, especially the Sigillaria vascularis^ 
having been found in them. In the Transactions of the 
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical 
Engineers, vol. XXYIII., part Y., p. 2.34, Mr. T. D. Kendall, 
C.E., F.G.S., in replying to some remarks in a paper of his 
on the Hsematite Deposits of West Cumberland, said, “With 
regard to the so-called vegetable remains mentioned by Mr. 
Binney, he had, since his paper was published, shown them 
to Professor Williamson, of Owens College, who pronounced 
them not to be plants at all.” The chief evidence on which 
I based my opinion was a most beautiful specimen of Sigil- 
laria vascularis shown to me many years ago by the late 
Mr. Bolton, of Swarthmoor, near Ulverston, exhibiting in 
a marked manner all the characters of that plant. Where 
this specimen now is I cannot tell, but I am pretty sure that 
neither Mr. Kendall nor the Professor is likely to have seen 
it. Other specimens presented to me by my friend the late 
Miss Hodgson, of Ulverston, from Water Blain Mine, near 
Broughton, were exhibited to the meeting at the time I 
read my paper, and the above-named gentlemen could not 
have seen them, for the simple reason that they have been 
Pkoceedings — Lit, &PniL. Soc.~Yol. XIX. — Xo. 2. — Session 1879-80, 
