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11. Nonionina crassula. 



12. „ umbilicatula. 



13. Operculina ammonoides. 



14. „ complanata. 



15. Polystomella „ (?) 



Of these species, GloUgerina buUoides was very abundant; two 

 or three specimens only of each of the others was found. 



The Secretary exhibited specimens of the Bird's-foot sea-star 

 (Palmipes memhranaceus), which were procured by Mr Anderson at 

 Girvan, from thirty fathoms water, off the coast near that town, 

 in the s^jring of the present year. 



Mr John Young exhibited a large series of Foraminifera and 

 Entomostraca obtained from the roots of Antenmdaria, dredged in 

 the same locality. Among these, the genus Texhdaria seemed to 

 be abundant. Mr Young, in his remarks, pointed out the geolo- 

 gical range of this genus, and stated that two species had been 

 found by him in the carboniferous limestones of the Lanarkshire 

 coalfield. He likewise referred to its occurrence in the bed of the 

 Atlantic, as shown by various soundings, at a depth of 2000 

 fathoms and upwards. 



Mr John Shaw exhibited the folloAving mosses: — Myuriwii 

 Hebridarum (Schr. Syn.) from the first and only station — North 

 Uist; Campylopus Shaivii (Wilson MS.), from the outer Hebrides — 

 a new species; Campylopus brevipilus, fragilis, from the same 

 islands; Hypnnm chrysophjlhim, from the first Scotch station — 

 North Uist; Grimmia spiralis, DisticMa inclinatum, etc., from the 

 outer Hebrides; also Campylopns jjolytrichoides, from Tigh-na-bruaich 

 — the third British station; Grimmia atrata, from Ben Lawers; 

 and Glyphomitrium Baviesii, from Skye, 



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L — N'ofes on Specimens from Orme's Head. 

 By Mr David Robertson. 

 A two quart bottle of mud was obligingly sent to me by Mr 

 Moore, of the Liverpool Free Museum, which had been dredged 

 by the trawlers about twenty miles off Orme's Head. About two- 

 thirds of the bottle was filled with black, slimy mud ; above that 

 was a thick layer of light coloured muddy sand and shelly debris. 

 This, again, was overgrown with a layer of sponge — the whole 

 reaching within an inch or so of the neck of the bottle. Tlie 



