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correct a previous communication of mine on the analysis of Gould's Bird* of 

 Europe, in The Analyst. 



I remain, my dear Sir, 



Yours very truly, 

 Thetford, Norfolk; J. D. Salmon. 



Sept. 6, 1836. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT 

 LIVERPOOL, 



SEPTEMBER, 1837. 



President— W. S. Macleay, Esq., F.S.L. ; Vice Presidents— Dr. Richardson, Prof. Graham, 

 Prof. Lindlby ; Secretaries— C. C. Babington, F.L.S., W. S\VAiNsoN,Esq., A.C.G., F.L.S., Rev. 

 Leonard Jenyns, F.L.S. 



Committee— Rev. Dr. Hincks, N. A. Vigors, Esq., M.P.,'D.C.L„ F.R.S., F.L.S., Rev.F.W. 

 Hope, F.R.S., Dr. Neill, Prof. Henslow, Dr. Traill, Earl of Derby, Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S., 

 John Curtis, F.L.S., T. C. Eyton, Esq., P. B. Duncan, F.L.S., J. E. Gray, F.R.S., C. S. Par- 

 ker, Rev. J. Yates, J. E. Bowman, Esq., C.Horsfall, R. Ball, P. J.SELBY,Esq.,F.R.S.E., 

 -M.W.S., L. W. Dillwyn, J. N. Walker, A. H. Haliday, J. T. Mackay, Capt. J. Ross, Sir 

 W.Jardine, Bart., F.R.S.E., M.W.S., Messrs. R. Harrison, H. Sandbach, Tinne, J. Salis- 

 bury, Green, F. Archer, G. Cooke, Dr. Duncan, 



The general arrangements at Liverpool for the reception of the seventh meeting 

 of the Association were not at all inferior to those made in other places. But 

 as these have been so fully and generally reported through the medium of the 

 daily and weekly press, we shall only advert to those points, and detail those 

 proceedings, which we think will most interest the readers of The Naturalist. 

 We shall, therefore, at once proceed to give a full account of the transactions of 

 that section of the Association devoted to Zoology and Botany. The meetings of 

 this section were held in the Theatre of the Royal Institution. On Monday 

 morning (Sept. 11) the chair of the section was taken by William Sharpe 

 Macleay, Esq. 



The business commenced with a paper by Dr. Traill, on a species ofArgas, 

 from the province of Mianneh, in Persia. He proposed to name it A. Persicus. 

 He said he had called the attention of the members to this insect on account of 

 the painful wounds and dangerous constitutional effects produced by its bite. 

 He thought it belonged to the class Arachnidce: It was an octopod, and re- 

 sembled the parasitic insect that infects Pigeons. The constitutional symptoms 

 following the bite were similar to those of typhus fever. 



The president observed that some of the statements with regard to these 

 insects were erroneous, and frequently derived from popular prejudice. 



