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Further Note on the Development of Actinophrys sol. 



By Mr. James Fullagar. 



(Read January 28th, 1876.) 



The recorded observations of the various changes of Actinophrys 

 sol., which occupied more than four months, are by no means the 

 whole that take place, for they have continued to exhibit, from 

 time to time, fresh phases in succession, and the last, but not least 

 important that has appeared, is the Amoeba villosa, which Dr. 

 Wallich described and illustrated in the " Annals of Natural 

 History," vol. xii., 1863, stating that from certain peculiarities 

 developed in it, he considered it to be of a much higher type, and 

 its general character such as to elevate the genus to which it 

 belongs considerably beyond the position it formerly occupied. 



A number of Amoeba villosa have made their appearance in the 

 cell, varying in size from ygVs - *° To °^ an mcu > an ^, at the same 

 time, there are some very small Actinophrys sol., only 2 \ $ of an 

 inch in diameter. 



Note on a Larval Cirripede. 



By Henry Davis, F.R.M.S., 



Communicated by Thos. Curties, F.R.M.S. 



{Read January 28th, 1876.) 



Ever since those early days when the doctrine of evolution found 

 delusive illustration in a barnacle developing into a goose, the 

 Cirripedes have been the innocent cause of many blunders, and 

 the latest of these — although not the least — it is my privilege to 

 claim. 



Last winter, while on a voyage to the Mauritius, a sea-fowl, 

 called by the sailors a Cape-hen (Procellaria gigantea), was shot 

 when we were about 800 miles N. W. of the Cape of Good Hope. 



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