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spirits. As to their probable use, I cannot even hazard a conjecture, as we have no information 

 regarding the habits of the insect ; but I may say that, to my eye, the organ appears to have 

 more relation to the antenusB than to anything else. A few species of this genus have been 

 already found in North America and Mexico, as well as five or six in Africa; but they are 

 very scarce. In the corner of the box there are a few specimens of two insects (an Anobium, 

 and a Cryptophagtis) which came home alive, feeding upon the cones, and which, however 

 acceptable to me as an entomologist, I can honestly say I would rather have dispensed with, 

 for the sake of my horticultural friends, who may have suffered from their ravages." 



2. — Mr. R F. Logan exhibited and described various Additions to the Lepidoptera of 

 Edinburghshire, captured during the last year. After placing at the disposal of the Society, 

 for the u.se of the members, a few copies of the Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects of 

 Mid Lothian, published in "The Naturalist," Mr. Logan enumerated twenty-eight additional 

 species which had been unintentionally omitted from the list, among which were Agrotls 

 Lunigcra, Eupithecia palustraria, Micropteryx fastuosella, CEcophora senescens, and several 

 other species of interest. He then read a list of twenty-five species added during the past 

 summer (1852,) and exhibited the insects, among which wei-e Phlmodes immundana, Lithocolletis 

 Messaniella, Z., Nepticula Argyropeza, Z., GcUchia politella, Doug., Gelechia Anthyllidella, 

 and marmorea, Crambus Dumetellus, and Contaminellus, and Actebia Prcecox. In conclusion, 

 he brought before the notice of the Society the plan of a work which he projected, should it 

 meet with sufficient support, to be intituled "Illustrations of Scottish Lepidoptera," in which 

 he intended to figure many of the rarer and more interesting species, with details of their 

 transformations and economy. He exhibited a number of the drawings in preparation, three 

 or four of which would form a part, to be issued quarterly; and solicited the names of 

 subscribers, to enable him to carry out his undertaking. 



3. — Mr. Hugh Miller read a Paper on '. the Red Sandstone, Marble, and Quartz Rock 

 Deposits of Assynt, with ■ their supposed organisms and probable analogues. We regret that 

 space will not allow us to insert this very interesting paper. 



At the conclusion of the meeting, James Bonar, Esq., W. S., York Place, and George Meldrum, 

 Esq., accountant, 53, York Place, were balloted for, and unanimously elected members of the 

 Society. 



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Wood Anemone, (Anemone nemorosa.) — In last month's "Retrospect" Mr. Daniell remarks 

 that he does not "remember to have seen any Wood Anemone that was not flushed with 

 purple." It may be the case that in such a rich county as Devon the flowers assume this 

 bright array, but I can assure hira that in the north, where limestone is scarce, the purple 

 Anemones are the exception, whereas the white predominate. Readers who have botanized in 

 Scotland, or in Cumberland and Westmorland, will corroborate this statement. It occurs to 

 me that Mr. Daniell's statement tends in a great measure to bear out Mr. Rothory's opinion 

 that the heat and "limey nature of the soil" probably assisted in producing the change in 

 the colour of the flowers. Of course when I say that the general colour of the flowers is white, 

 I refer to the upper, not the tinder surface of the petals.— J. B. Davies, Ripon, March 21st., 

 1853. 



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I had last year some Caterpillars of the White Ermine Moth and the Vapourer Moth, feeding 

 together in the same box, and more than once I found some of the chrysalides into which 

 individuals of the one kind had turned, partially devoured by those of the other which were 

 yet in the larva state. Is this an unusual circumstance?— F. 0. Morris, Nafferton Vicarage, 

 Driffield, March 28th., 1853. 



