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hum 8 i Strombus 2 ; mufex 23, comprehending the rar* 

 carinatus, and 3 new ones; trochus 4; turbo 32, 5 new; 

 helix 17; nerita 7; haliotis 1; patella 11; dentalium 2; 

 serpula 7 ; vermiculum 3. This is, upon the whole, the 

 most ample catalogue of Scottish testacea hitherto framed, 

 containing 12t) species of multivalve and bivalve, and 142 

 df univalve shells; in all 268 species. 



At the same meeting the secretary read a communication Nondescript 

 from George Montagu, Esq*, of Knowel House, giving an ' 

 account of a nondescript fish, 5 feet long, taken on the 

 coast of Devonshire last summer. It must constitute a new 

 genus, in the apodal order; and Mr. Montagu has bestowed 

 on it the generic name of ziphotheca, and the specific one 

 tetradens* The communication likewise contained accurate 

 descriptions of four rare species of English fishes; and was 

 accompanied with correct and elegant drawings of these, as 

 well as of the ziphotheca.— -At the same time Mr. Montagu 

 presented the Society with copies of his Testacea Britan- 

 nica, and Supplement, 3 vols. 4to, with coloured plates ; 

 and of his Ornithological Dictionary, 2 vols. 8vo. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



THE learned author of the paper on comets in our last 

 number, p. 206, is Mr. de Luc. His name was accident- 

 ally omitted from not being signed to the paper itself, but 

 only to the letter in which it was enclosed. 



