412 Miscellaneous. 



Sir Patrick Walker, F.R.S., Edinb. — Sir Patrick was a zealous 

 entomologist, and possessed the must extensive entomological col- 

 lection in Scotland. 



Mr. William Wi/krs. 



Among the Foreign Members ia Godfrey Reinhold Treviranus, 

 M.D., of Bremen. — It would be impossible for me to attempt to give 

 even a brief outline of the career of tins distinguished anatomist and 

 physiologist, of whom it is perhaps enough to say that he was the 

 intimate friend and fellow-labourer of Tiedemann. 



Among the associates are Mr. Thomas Milne, who was a zealous 

 practical botanist and a contributor to the ' English Botany'. On 

 his authority the Cardamine bellidifolia has been received into the 

 British Flora. 



Nathaniel John Winch, Esq. — A very zealous British botanist, but 

 his name stands more immediately connected with the Flora of 

 Northumberland and Durham, of which he published, in 1807, the 

 Botanist's Guide, in 2 vols., and subsequently an Essay on the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of the Plants of those counties, as well as re- 

 marks on their Distribution in connexion with the Geological Struc- 

 ture of the Soil. He was also the author of a paper on the Geology 

 of the Banks of the Tweed, whicli appeared in the volume of the 

 Transactions of the Natural History Society of New r castle-upon- 

 Tyne, of which he was one of the founders and an active member. 



At the election which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop 

 of Norwich was re-elected President; Edward Forster, Esq., Trea- 

 surer ; Francis Boott, M.D., Secretary ; and Mr. Richard Taylor, 

 Under Secretary. The following five gentlemen were elected into 

 the Council in the room of others going out : viz. Arthur Aikin, 

 Esq. ; John Jos. Bennett, Esq. ; George Bentham, Esq. ; the Earl of 

 Derby ; and John Guillemard, Esq. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



DESCRIPTION OF A THIRD LIVING SPECIES OF THE CRINOIDEA, FORMING 

 THE TYPE OF THE NEW GENUS HOLOPUS. BY M. d'oRBIGNY. 



This new species was discovered by M. Rang at the Antilles : it 

 is distinguished from all the other genera of the Crinoidea by two 

 distinct characters ; first, that which has obtained for it the name 

 of Holopus, and which consists in its having the foot entire, not di- 

 vided, a character possessed by none of the known genera ; second, 

 that of also having the foot short, hollow, and serving as a recepta- 

 cle for the viscera, which is not the case in the other Crinoids, which, 

 on the contrary, have a peculiar dilatation for this purpose si- 



