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Benzelius, and many others ; in this manner the name of Linne 

 was Carl Linnaeus ; and so did he write it himself in all his 

 publications, (whether Latin or Swedish) till he became ennobled. 

 In former times it was here also very customary that whosoever 

 was thus honoured, adopted a new name ; and it was on this 

 occasion that Linnaeus altered his name to Linne, writing either 

 Carl Linne or Carl von Linne, or in his subsequent Latin works, 

 Carolus a Linne, (vide Dissertatio de coloniis plantarum (1768), 

 Planta Aphyleia (1776), and some other writings); but he wrote 

 also Carolus Linne (Dissertatio de Erica 1770), and Carolus von 

 Linne (Dissertatio de Cimicifuga (1774), Plants Surinamenses 

 (1775). Whether it was Linne himself or the then King (Gustav 

 III.) » who put the name into a French form, I must leave 

 undecided." It may be added, that in Germany and Denmark, 

 the name of the great Reforruator in Natural History, is also 

 usually written Linne. 



Mr. Macleay read the following note : — The October number 

 of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, contains an 

 article on a case of commensalism of a Caranx and a Crambessa, 

 written by M. Godefroy Lunel, and translated by W. S. 

 Dallas, F.L.S. In this Paper M. Lunel speaks of the com- 

 mensalism of Fishes and Medusae as something doubtful and 

 unknown, but the following extract from the report of the Royal 

 Commission on the Fisheries of New South Wales, written 

 nearly four years ago, will show that the fact was well 

 known to the Commissioners. Alluding to the Yellow-tail 

 " Trachurus trachurus" it says : — " The very young fry have 

 a most extraordinary and ingenious way of providing for 

 their safety and nutrition at the same time ; they take up 

 their quarters inside the umbrella of the large Medusae, where 

 they are safe from their enemies, and are, without any exertion 

 on their part, supplied with the minute organisms which con- 

 stitute their food, by the constant current kept up by the action 

 of the curtain-like cilia of the animal." 



Mr. Macleay exhibited a specimen of the very remarkable and 

 rare Fish Siphonognathus argyrophanes of Richardson. Four 



