Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Llnncan Soviet //. nJ 1 



the males, though not so large. The Bex of this ani- 

 mal was satisfactorily ascertained in cutting up, when 

 two foetuses were taken out of it. 



Read a Letter from James Olealand, Esq. of Rath- 

 gael House, near Bangor in the county of Down, In- 

 land, containing an account of a new species of Pa- 

 tella, which has been named by Mr. Sowerby Patella 

 Clealandi. Mr.Clealand describes it as follows: Shell 

 oval, white, with red-brown or purple sj >< #t - ; faintly 

 striated longitudinally, and still more faintly trans- 

 versely; summit obtuse, lateral, tinged with Eight pur- 

 ple; margin entire; inside white, with a dark-brown 

 muscular impression. The young shells are very thin, 

 but the old are nearly opake. The size of the largi i( 

 specimen yet found is 91- Uint ' l> nt :,n nu ''» hi length, 

 7-tenths in breadth, and 4-tenths in height. There ia 

 a dark-brown variety, with two indistinct raj b from the 

 apex, one on each side. 



This shell was first found by Mr. Clealand in June 

 1819? at low-water mark, on a smooth stone forming B 

 part of the breakwater at Port George, near Bangor. 

 And it has since been found in great numbers at the 

 same place during very low ebbs. 

 Dec. 18. Dr. Maton, V.P. presented a Panicle of Uolrus 

 Sorghum, raised in the garden of the Bishop of Dur- 

 ham, H.M.L.S. at Mongewell, from seeds collected on 

 the Himalaya mountains in Ilindostan. Seeds from 

 this Panicle were stated by Dr. Maton to have grown 

 freely in Mr. AValcott's garden at Oundle this year. 



Bead the following Extract from a Letter from Mr. 



Patrick Hill, Surgeon in the Royal X aw, dated Sydney, 



vol. xin. 4l New 



