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Towards the latter end of last September (1881) I dredged a part 

 of the Glasgow and Paisley canal a little east of Elderslie, and when 

 examining the material brought up, I was pleased to find what 

 appeared to be this rare form. I submitted specimens to Mr. 

 Robertson, who identified them as Goniocypris, thus adding a new 

 station for it for Scotland. 



A friend, who happened to be with me when dredging, knew 

 something about where the Swan Mussel, Anodonta cygnea, was 

 found in the canal, and as we were in the neighbourhood of where 

 it was known to be, proposed searching for it. We secured a 

 few specimens, and wishing to learn something of their habits 

 I kept mine alive. About two months afterwards they began to 

 take on an unhealthy appearance, and so that I might examine their 

 structure, I killed one of them. In cutting it up I observed a mass 

 of granular-like substance, covered by a thin membrane, and lying 

 close to the branchial plates. Placing some of this granular sub- 

 stance on a slide, and looking at it with my botanical lens, I was 

 surprised to rind objects closely resembling Goniocypris mitra, and 

 more careful examination proved the two to be identical, and 

 that Goniocypris was the ova or fry of Anodonta cygnea. 



I communicated to Mr. Robertson what I had observed, as I 

 knew he would be glad to know the true nature of this organism, 

 and he has, with his usual kindliness, informed me that this 

 discovery, as he is pleased to call it, will be acknowledged in the 

 monograph of the Ostracoda, now in preparation. 



II. — Notes on the Seal and Whale-fishery of 1881. By Mr. 

 Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., Corresponding Member. 



I am mainly indebted to Capt. David Gray, of Peterhead, and 

 Mr. David Bruce, of Dundee, for the following particulars of the 

 Seal and Whale-fishery of the season of 1881. Hoping they may 

 prove of interest to the naturalists of that portion of the United 

 Kingdom to which this branch of commerce is now entirely restricted, 

 I beg to submit them to the members of the Natural History 

 Society of Glasgow. 



The Newfoundland Seal-fishery has hitherto, so far as Great 

 Britain is concerned, been confined to the port of Dundee, from 

 whence the vessels sail for St. John's about the first week in 



