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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Oct. 17- — Dr. Henderson, V. P., in the chair. — After a variety of presents 

 had been announced, consisting of donations from the Academy of Sciences and 

 the Horticultural Society of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Dr. Lindley read a com- 

 munication from Mr. Dilwyn, on the growth of stove aquatics in the open air, 

 stating that the writer had grown even the most tender South American va- 

 rieties in this manner, which flourished well without any protection. A Melon 

 was exhibited, grown by Mr. Williams, of Pitmaston, under frames open at 

 the sides, and which, although the season was so far advanced, was in full per- 

 fection, as was also a superb queen Pine-apple, from Mr. Harrison, weighing 

 4lbs 14oz., and of greater size than any previously produced of this variety. The 

 fruit from the gardens of the society consisted of fifteen new varieties of Pears, 

 and twenty of Apples. The flowers consisted of a choice variety of Dahlias 

 from the gardens of the society, and Messrs. Chandler and Catcleuch ; amongst 

 the former being seen some of the seedlings of the original Mexican flower from 

 which all the different forms at present known have sprung. There were also 

 interesting collections of plants from the gardens of Sir Edward Antrobus, Mrs. 

 Lawrence, and Messrs. Young : amongst the latter being a rare plant, Impa- 

 tiens scandiflora, from Ceylon, on which Dr. Lindley took occasion to remark 

 on the propriety of introducing garden plants from this country and the southern 

 parts of the peninsula of India. Silver Knightian medals were awarded to Mr. 

 Young, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Green, gardener to Sir Edward Antrobus, 

 after which the meeting adjourned to the 17th of November. 



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ZOOLOGY. 



1. On the Genus Pagurus, by Dr. Milne Edwards. — We intimated in a 

 former number (p. 375) that we might probably extract further from Dr. Ed- 

 wards's valuable paper on the Paguri, published in the Annates des Sciences 

 Naturelles. This we accordingly now proceed to do. 



It is generally agreed, observes the doctor, that in the Paguri, as well as in 

 the Cenobites, there are only ovipositors (if appendices oviferes may be so 

 translated) or false feet on one side, and that this part of the body is quite 

 membranous above. M. Desmarest, on the contrary, says that in the female, 

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