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book of Jonas, with the headmg " W. T. unto the Christen reader," it is 

 most probably some reprint of Tyndal and Coverdale. 



The President exhibited, and read frojn, the Salisbury Missal. 



Mr. Isaac Byebley communicated a paper in explanation of his 

 " List of Animals found in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, intended as 

 a nucleus for a Faima of the district," which had been printed in a 

 preliminary form for distribution amongst the members of the Society. 



This list, with subsequent additions, contains the names of 37 mam- 

 malia, 150 birds, 11 reptiles, 86 fishes, 186 moUusca, 62 Crustacea, 

 including the valuable addition of 15 species of entomostracia by Mr. 

 Weightman, nearly 700 insecta (all lepidoptera), about 40 annelids, 12 

 ecliinodermata, 14 acalephse, 65 zoophytes, and 4 sponges. 



It was Mr. Byerley's original intention to have published the list, 

 properly classified and arranged, with the localities of the animals and 

 other remarks worthy of note, in the present volume ; but he thinks it 

 expedient however to postpone it until a later period. In this opinion 

 he is joined by many gentlemen who have kindly assisted in the investi- 

 gation. This course has been determined upon because several additional 

 species have been appended to the list since it was printed ; and it is 

 reasonable to hope that many more may yet be included. Moreover, 

 several species have not been named. In three or four instances this 

 circumstance is owing to their being new to the British fauna : one of 

 these is a nudibranch mollusk, of the genus Antiopa, found at Hilbra 

 Island by Mr. Price and himself. Mr. Alder thinks that, from its 

 glassy transparent appearance, the name of vitrea, or crystallina, would 

 be appropriate. Three annelids also, which have been put into the 

 hands of Dr. Williams, of Swansea, who is engaged in the preparation of 

 a monograph upon this class, are stated by that gentleman to be new. 

 Others, again, have not been determined, owing to the scattered nature 

 of much of our zoological literature, the papers necessary for reference 

 being in periodicals and other expensive works difficult of access. It was 

 thought worthy of notice that two specimens of Eolis Landsburghi, and 

 one of Doris subquadrata, have been found upon our shores, the figures 

 in the parts of Alder and Hancock's work upon the British nudibranchs 

 having been drawn from single captures at the time of their pubUcation. 

 Among the reptiles, also, Lissotriton palmipeSy a very rare species, was 

 found at Upton, and kept in captivity for several months. Inde- 

 pendently of the gaps which may be filled up amongst the classes in 



