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been able to see that these fibrils arise from the interior of the blood - 

 discs, like certain fibres delineated in the last ingenious researches 

 of Dr. M. Barry." 



It has been very commonly supposed that fibrine only exhibits an 

 organized appearance when it has coagulated in contact with living 

 parts. In his Notes and Appendix to Gerber's ' Anatomy,' Mr. Gul- 

 liver has shown a distinct structure in fibrine which has clotted, 

 within or out of the body, simply from rest, as well as in a false 

 membrane. He now gives several figures to illustrate the analogy 

 of structure in fibrine coagulated merely from rest, and fibrinous 

 exudations resulting from inflammation. This structure is made up 

 of fibrils of extreme delicacy and tenuity, and of corpuscles possess- 

 ing the characters of primary cells, or organic germs. 



It may be added that these observations are not devoid of interest 

 in relation to reparative process. If a clot of fibrine consists of pri- 

 mary cells and fibrils, even when coagulation has taken place sim- 

 ply from rest, it may be easily understood that inflammation is un- 

 necessary to the healing of wounds ; and this is precisely the view 

 which Dr. Macartney has long since supported against the current 

 doctrines of the day. — Abridged from Contributions to Minute Ana- 

 tomy, by G. Gulliver, F.R.S. Lond. Edinb. and Dublin Philos. 

 Magazine, October 1842. 



An Extract of a Letter addressed to a friend containing an account of 



Tortricides captured in the New Forest in the month of September 



1841. By Capucina*. 



I took about eighty different species and upwards of 700 speci- 

 mens ; amongst them were Stilbia anomolata and Cleora teneraria ; 

 but passing over the Noctuce, Geometry, &c, I shall confine myself 

 to two or three genera of the smaller kinds. 



I secured all the known species of the genus Sarrothropus, in- 

 cluding the more rare ones, undulanus, ramosanus, and the beautiful 

 and almost unknown Stoninus; the more common species were 

 abundant, especially degenerarius and dilutanus. 



The capture which I next describe is the ' Tufted Peroneal 

 and of which I am inclined to be somewhat proud. I took 153 spe- 

 cimens of them, amongst which are three new species. I found 

 them somewhat in the following proportions : P. semiustana, plen- 

 tiful; striana, the same; substriana, not quite so plentiful; bruneana, 

 rather scarce ; vittana, plentiful ; spadiceana, the same ; consimilana, 

 plentiful; defontiana, the same ; fulvocristana, sparingly; albovittana, 

 scarce ; cristalana, numerous ; fulvovittana, the same ; albipunctana, 

 took but one specimen ; cristana, very plentiful ; Bentleyana, took 

 but three specimens ; sequana, the same ; subcristalana, only one 

 specimen ; chantana, one ; ruficostana, sparing ; obsoletana, took but 

 one specimen ; favillaceana, very numerous ; tristana, the same ; 

 and reticulana, likewise very numerous ; all in very good order. I 

 will now describe those which I consider to be new Buttons, and will 

 do so to the best of my power ; but being but indifferently acquainted 

 * Communicated by J. Curtis, Esq., F.L.S. 



