764 Extracts from the Mini/te-Book of the Linnean Society. 



' Thursdays, from 12 till 4 o'clock, and that the Museum 



will be open during the same hours on Wednesdays 

 and Fridays. 

 1830. 

 April 20. Mr. N. B. Ward, F.L.S., exhibited a remarkable 

 specimen of exfoliation of the entire hand and foot, 

 which happened five different times in the same person 

 from fever. 



Jwie 1. Mr. John Gould, A.L.S., exhibited, by permission, 

 the Skeleton of the Camelopardalis Giroffa belonging 

 to His Majesty. 



Mr. William Pamplin, jun., A.L S., exhibited a 

 Fruit of the Carica Papaya, which ripened in a hot- 

 house belonging to John Barker, Esq., at Aylesbury. 



June 15. Read an extract of a Letter from Mrs. Smith, 

 dated Moradabad, July 20th, 1829, to a gentleman 

 in Somersetshire, giving an account of a quantity 

 of Fishes that fell in a shower of rain at that place. 

 Many were observed by Mrs. Smith from the win- 

 dow of her residence, springing about on the grass 

 immediately after the storm. The letter was accom- 

 panied by a drawing taken on the spot, which repre- 

 sents a small species of Cyprinus, two inches and a 

 quarter in length, green above, silvery white below, 

 with a broad lateral line of bright red. 

 1831. 



Feb. 15. Mr. Westwood, F.L.S., exhibited drawings of two 

 Insects illustrating the connexion between the Coleo- 

 pterous families Prionida and Lucanida, in opposition 

 to the tarsal system. 



March 



