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Eleven species of Foraminifera were met with; and I have no 

 doubt, with further search, a considerable number more could be 

 added. As I was pressed for time, I did not do them justice. 



Ostracoda are more numerously represented. Eighteen good 

 species have been identified, besides one or two less or more doubt- 

 ful varieties. 



There is one species very interesting, Cytheridea Mulleri, which 

 I have liitherto never met with recent, if this be so. Brady gives 

 Australia as its habitat, in his new, or imperfectly known species 

 of marine Ostracoda. Jones figures it amongst his tertiary Ento- 

 mostraca. It is not uncommon in the glacial clays in the east of 

 Scotland, but rarely met with in the west. It is just possible that 

 this may be a fossil waif; but from whence, or how it got there, 

 may not be so easily accounted for. I believe that it is of exceed- 

 ingly rare occurrence to meet with fossils in the dredge, except 

 where it comes in contact with the deposit to which they belong; 

 and that can seldom happen, considering the general covering of 

 the sea bottom of mud, sand, gravel, and other debris. But as 

 there has been only one example met with, and that only being 

 one valve, it is yet wanting in sufiicient rehable grounds to 

 establish its recent character. 



Perhaps some of the members will be able to throw some light 

 on the probable source of Ostracoda in that district. 



From these large numbers of species in such comparatively small 

 space, we may be inclined to conclude that the bottle afforded 

 more than usual protection, both from their enemies and the 

 tumults of the sea; but I am inclined to think that it is no 

 unusual proportion in ordinary favourable localities. In an ounce 

 or two of mud from the bottom of the sea, I generally find a 

 profusion of animal life; the same in our canals, and often in 

 small patches of water only a few feet in extent, entomostraca 

 may be met with in thousands. 



II, — On the Birds of East Lothian and Berwickshire. 

 By Lord BiNNiNG. 

 Several very interesting notices were given in this paper of the 

 occurrence of rare species in both counties. Conspicuous among 

 these were the sea-eagle {Haliaetm albicilla), shot at Tyninghame; 

 the honey-buzzard (Fernis apivonis), also shot there — both birds 

 being now in Lord Haddington's collection; the great spotted 



