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The followieg paper was read at the Meeting of the 
Society held on the 26th December, 1876. 
“A Notice of some Organic Remains from the Schists 
of the Isle of Man,” by E. W. Binney, President, F.R.S., &c. 
Many years since Dr. Berger, Mr. Wood, Professor Hens- 
low, and Dr. Macculloch, noticed these deposits ; but it 
is chiefly owing to the researches of the Rev. J. C. Gumming 
that we are indebted for a more detailed account of them. 
In his Guide to the Isle of Man, published in 1861, he 
states that “the greater portion of the island, probably 
three-fourths, consists of rocks which it may be convenient 
at present to include under the general term of Camhro- 
Silurian,” intending thereby aU the rocks under the Upper 
Silurian of Sir R. J. Murchison. 
“This statement must be taken cautiously, as resting partly 
on negative evidence, in the absence of determinate fossils, 
and partly on direct lithological considerations. No fossils, 
with the exception of a few undetermined fucoids or coral- 
lines, have, as yet, been discovered in these rocks, but by 
diligent search they may hereafter be obtained ; yet they 
can be very well compared in lithological character with 
that series of rocks on the western borders of Shropshire 
and eastern borders of Montgomeryshire, to which the name 
of ^ Lower Silurian’ was long since given by Sir R. Murchi- 
son, together with, perhaps, the true Cambrians of the 
Longmynds. They consist of soft clay schists, often highly 
ferruginous, and sometimes mottled, with intercalated bands 
of harder and siliceous rocks, and, which is most interest- 
ing, in comparing them with the Corndon series, with bands 
