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 below in fig. 3. Fig. 6. The two upper meshes of fig. 5, magnified six times, showing the ends of the vessels passing outwards, and the longitudinal section of the scalariform vessels of the cylinder. Fig. 7. Longitudinal section of a portion of the cylinder, magnified six times, parallel to the meshes, showing no indication of medullary rays.

Fig. 8. A vascular bundle and its accompanying cellular tissue from a section of the original specimen of Lepidodendron Harcourtii, Lindl. & Hutt. The large cells surrounding the drawing are the parenchyma of the circumference of the stem. The cellular tissue belonging to the vascular bundle is composed of small cells with very delicate walls. This tissue so readily decayed that I have never seen it in any specimen of Stigmaria, or in any of these stems except this Lepidodendron.

Discussion.

Prof. Morris insisted on the necessity of the student of fossil botany being thoroughly acquainted with modern botany also. It was from specimens discovered many years ago by Mr. Prestwich that the true nature of the Stigmarioe had been discovered ; and he quite agreed with the author in regarding them as cryptogams, and in no way connected with gymnosperms. The abundance of cryptogamic spores in coal was hardly at present appreciated. There were some varieties of coal almost exclusively composed of such spores.

3. On the British Species of the Genera Climacograpsus, Diplograpsus, Dicranograpsus, and Didymograpsus. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, D.Sc, M.B., F.G.S.

[This paper has been withdrawn by permission of the Council.]

April 14, 1869.

Captain William Price, M.P., of Tibberton Court, near Gloucester ; Sir David Wedderburn, Bart., M.P. of 17 Pall Mall; A. Rogers, Esq. (Bombay Civil Service), Heath End House, Hampstead; W. E. Koch, Esq., 31 Oxford Square, Hyde Park ; and the Rev. James Kernahan, M.A., Ph.D. (Rostock), F.R.S.L., F.E.S., 50 Greenwood Road, Dalston, were elected Fellows of the Society.

The following communications were read : —

1. On the Coal-mines at Kaianoma, in the Island of Yezo. By F. 0. Adams, Esq., H.M. Secretary of Legation in Japan.

(Communicated by the Secretary of State for Foreign Afiairs.)

[Abstract.]

The writer stated that the works at Kaianoma have made considerable progress since they were reported upon by Mr. Mitford last year *. There are four seams of coal, each about 7 feet thick and at a distance from each other of from 50 to 100 feet. Mr. Adams


 * See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiv. p. 511.