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XXV. Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean 



Society of London. 



May 5, Mr. Lambert exhibited a specimen of the single- 

 1807. flowered Paonia sifffruticosa^ which was then in bloom, 

 for the first time in Britain, in the collection of Lady 

 Amelia Hume. 



JimelG. A letter to the Secretary from Mr. Power of Market 

 Bosworth, Leicestershire, was read, describing the man- 

 ner in which the Common Garden Snail Helix kortensis, 

 and the Slugs Limax ater and ??iaximus, feed on the 

 Common Dew Worm or Earth "Worm Lumhricus ter- 

 restris, when dead or dying. This is performed in the 

 night ; and as Mr. Power observed these animals would 

 not attack a living worm, he attributes it to the prickles 

 on its surface, which the worm, when in health and vi- 

 gour, has a power of erecting, as well probably for de- 

 fence against snails, as for the purpose of drawing 

 straws, &c. into its retreat. 



Nov. 17. The following account from Mr. George Milne, F.L.S. 

 respecting the effect of the imagination of a female cat 

 on the foetus in the womb, was read. 



" One afternoon in the month of May last, while my- 

 2 t 2 self 



