504 Miscellaneous. 



Mr. Borrer, to whom I sent recent fragments as well as dried speci- 

 mens, considers it identical with the Eng. Bot. Sup. plant." 



3. " On the Flowering of Plants in the Royal Botanic Garden," by 

 Mr. M'Nab. 



4. Illustrations of the application of " Nature Printing" to the 

 copying of Botanical Specimens, by W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



BELLIA ARENARIA. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



8 Mulgrave Place, Plymouth, May 17, 1854. 



.{jiOrENTLEMEN, — In the April Number of this Journal for 1851, 

 p. 318, there is figured and described by me an Amphipod Crus- 

 tacean under the name of Bellia arenaria. 



Finding that the same generic name has been applied to one 

 of the Anomouray it would be better perhaps, for the convenience 

 of science, that the same name should not be repeated in one class of 

 animals. 



It is therefore proposed to call this animal for the future " Sulcator 

 arenariuSy'' or " the Sand-ploughing Screw," the name being derived 

 from the furrow which it makes in the wet sand when crawling ; the 

 only one of the tribe, as far as I am aware, that so progresses. 

 I am. Sirs, very obediently yours, 



C. S PENCE BaTB. 

 MR. BOWERBANK AND PROF. SEDGWICK. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. ,y,,!. 



Queen's College, Belfast, 22ud May, 1854'.' ' 

 Gentlemen, — Mr. Bowerbank's letter, in your last Number, in 

 reply to Professor Sedgwick's remarks on a statement printed by 

 M. Milne- Edwards in the Palseontographical Society's volume for 

 1852, may be briefly answered (and I hope to his satisfaction) by my 

 statement that / have seen the list he enclosed of the fossils he asked 

 for, and it only contained the names of the new British Oolitic corals 

 mentioned in my paper on Mesozoic Radiata in a former volume of 

 the ' Annals,' and no Palceozoic corals. Prof. Sedgwick's statements 

 are therefore strictly correct, and Mr. Bowerbank's surmises that he 

 had written for both kinds, as well as any defence of Prof. Milne- 

 Edwards founded thereon, are clearly negatived. The Hst is still at 

 Cambridge. 



I have the honour to remain. Gentlemen, 



Your most obliged and obedient servant, 



Frederick M'Coy. 



