Scientific Intelligence. — Zoology. S93 



inhabitants of shells, to accomplish that desirable object ; and 

 probably, by securing them in a well-stopped bottle, they might 

 be kept alive much longer, and be transported from very remote 

 parts of the globe. — I remain, &c. John Curtis. 



'* P. S. I have been informed by Mr Lyell, that some shells 

 brought from South America by Lieutenant T. Graves, were 

 seventeen months without food, and are now alive, and inhabit- 

 ing their native plants in the Conservatories of Messrs Loddiges 

 at Hackney. But shells closed by an operculum, have been 

 known to remain thus hermetically sealed in cabinets for very 

 long periods, — it has been said for forty years, and afterwards 

 been reanimated by moisture.**' Some live specimens of the 

 species referred to in the letter, were exhibited at the meeting. — 

 Extracts from the Min, Book of the Linn, Soc. vol. xvi. part 3, 

 p. 744. 



5. Shower of Fishes. — June 15, Read an extract of a letter from 

 Mrs Smith, dated Monradabad, July 20. 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 window 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 represents a small 

 species of Cyprinus, 9>\ inches in length, green above, silvery 

 white below, with a broad lateral line, bright red. — Ext, from 

 Min. Book of Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. part 3, p. 764. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Illustrations of the Botany and other Branches of the Natural His- 

 tory oftJie Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere, 

 By J. Forbes Royle, Esq. F. L. S. & G. S., &c. of the Ho- 

 nourable East India Company's Medical Establishment, &c. 

 Part I., with 22 Coloured Elngravings. Folio. Parbury, Allen, 

 & Co. London, 1833. 



We formerly announced the promised appearance of this im- 

 portant work. A perusal of the very interesting letter-press, 

 and a careful examination of the well engraved and beautifully 

 coloured plates of Himalayan plants and animals, in this the first 



