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imminent danger by a severe attack of fever, brought on by malaria. In 1845 he 

 became a fellow of the Koyal Society ; in 1846 he was again attacked by a severe 

 illness, from which he also rallied ; in 1848 he married a daughter of the late 

 General Sir. C. Ashworth ; in 1850 he completed, with Mr. Hanley, the splendid 

 work on the " Natural History of the British Mollusca and their Shells." In May, 

 1854, on the demise of Professor Jameson, he was called to the Chair of Natural 

 History in the University of Edinburgh. This had long been the darling object of 

 his ambition, and he was actively engaged in forming collections to add to the 

 museum. He commenced his lectures on 1st November, 1854, and lectured for 

 five or six days. During all this time he complained more or less of febrile 

 symptoms ; these, at last, increased so much, that he consulted Dr. Bennett, who at 

 once ordered him to give up lecturing ; which he did on the 9th of November. He 

 appeared to be amending up to the 15th, when the symptoms became of a more 

 alarming nature. On the evening of Friday he gave his last directions, leaving his 

 specimens to the college museum, and his papers to E. G. Austen, Esq. He con- 

 tinued to sink, and died at 5^, P.M., on Saturday, 18th November, being sensible 

 to the last. Bibliographical. Notices. Proceedings of Learned Societies Zoolo- 

 gical Society. Miscellaneous Notes on the Reproduction of Ligula, by M. Druille; 

 Description of the animal of Cyclina sinensis, by Dr. J. E. Gray; Observations 

 on the Development of Actinias, by M. Lacaze-Dutheirs. Meteorological Obser- 

 vations .and Table, for November, 1854. 



No. 86, February : (R. C. R. Jordan, M.B.) Some account of the Actiniada?, 

 found on the coast, near Teignmouth, Devon. During the month of April, 1854, 

 Dr. Jordan proceeded to investigate the various species of Actinia?, and other 

 allied genera, found upon the coast, near Teignmouth. The part examined extended 

 from the small rocks between the beach at Dawlish and the Warren on the one side, 

 to the rocks bounding the Torre Abbey Sands on the other being rather more 

 than ten miles of coast. The Actinia? found A. mesembryanthemum, common ; 

 A. alba, rare ; A. troglodytes, very abundant ; A. aurantiacea, Jordan, local 

 a new species, being, when contracted into a cone, of a deep orange, with a central 

 spot of deeper tinge ; A. n. sp. (?) pulcherrima, Jor. Only one example of this 

 Actinia was found, and it appears to differ from A. rosea, Gosse ; however, it will 

 require some comparison with that species before it is satisfactorily made a new 

 species. A. parasitica, very common ; A. clavata, Thomp., var. rosacea, Gosse, only 

 one specimen found ; A. coriacea, common ; A. dianthus, cast rather frequently on 

 the beach during the winter storms ; Anthea cereus, common. (G. Busk) On a 

 Monstrous Oyster-shell, with a plate; (0. C. Babington) On Hypericum 

 anglicum ; (A. R. Wallace) On the Ornithology of Malacca. From these short 

 notes of Mr. Wallace's it would appear, that Malacca is nearly as productive ,a 

 country for the ornithologist as for an entomologist, as he was enabled to make a 

 large collection of the native birds during about seven weeks. (S. P. Woodward) 

 Descriptions of the Animals of certain genera of Bivalve Shells ; (T. Wright, 

 M.D.) On Fossil Echinoderms from the Island of Malta, with notes on the Strati- 

 graphical Distribution of the Fossil Organisms in the Maltese Beds; (Rev. T. 

 Hincks) Notes on British Zoophytes, with descriptions of new species, with two 

 plates. The new species are, one new Sertularia (S. alata), a new Polyzoon (Halia 

 prastenuis) ; and, also, notes of the occurrence of Cellularia cuspidata, at Brixham ; 

 of Caberea boryi, at Devon ; and of Laomedea lacerata, at Exmouth ; also, a 



