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splendid opportunities their port afforded, of extending our acquaintance with 

 both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. The first was a new genus of land 

 shell, intermediate between Helix and Anostoma. 2ndly, Several new species 

 which he designated as follows : — Achatina Funita, Carocolla JHomarginata^ 

 from India, and Paludina Yatesii, one of the largest and most beautiful 

 species of this elegant genus. He then introduced a species of Unto, new to 

 this country, and discovered by Mr. Gilbertson, of Preston, a zealous and ex- 

 emplary naturalist, at Broughton, near Craven, in Yorkshire. The species was 

 Unto Roysii. 



Dr. Vigors stated that he was sorry not to be able to read his paper " On the 

 Classification of Birds" to the Section, at their present meeting. He was not 

 sufficiently prepared to lay before them, distinctly, his views on this important 

 subject. He stated that he should have had great pleasure in doing so, on account 

 of the presence of their honoured President, whose philosophic views of the 

 arrangement of the Animal Kingdom he had endeavoured to apply to his classifi- 

 cation of birds. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited some rare insects he had found in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Melly, of Liverpool. The first was a female specimen of the Che- 

 loderma Childreni. The second Chiasognathus Grantii> and the third a very 

 curious species of Curculio. 



Other papers had been announced, but as the time for closing approached, they 

 were postponed. 



The President then took a general survey of the subjects on which they had 

 been occupied. He pointed out the importance of the inquiries in which the 

 section had been engaged. This section bore on all, and the investigations which 

 they met to pursue, were essential to improvement in other branches of science. 

 It was this Section alone that could explain the anomalous results of the experi- 

 ments of a Crosse; it was this Section alone that could decipher the fossil 

 hieroglyphics discovered by the geologist ; and it was to this Section that the 

 medical philosopher must repair for obtaining rational and philosophic views of 

 the phenomena of both healthy and diseased bodies. He trusted that the meet- 

 ings of the Association would be the means of directing increased attention to 

 these branches of science, by shewing to the public the practical value of their 

 investigations. 



[We have supplied a full report of the Section of Natural History at the 

 British Association, as we have been enabled, with the kind assistance of a 

 gentleman who attended the meetings, not only to correct the errors of previous 

 accounts, but likewise to add much new and interesting matter, not hitherto 

 presented to the public. — Ed.]] 



