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No. 5, p. 77. I. Byerle}^ Spontaneous fission in Anthea 

 cereus and Sagartia Candida. The latter into four fragments. 

 The writer noticed indications of a similar action in a stony 

 coral, Halomitra, but is unable to recover the paper in which 

 the phenomenon is described. 



No. 14, p. 155. I. Byerley. Tenacity of life in the cilia 

 of a mussel, and in a Littorina. 



T. J. Moore. Cuttle-fish, Sejna officinalis, from Burbo 

 Bank, 



No. 16, p. 174. W. Banister. Habit in Dianthus plu- 

 nwsa, of throwing off mucus when irritated. 



The communications made to the Liverpool Naturalists' 

 Journal were almost entirely botanical. 



Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire 



AND Cheshire. 



A considerable number of papers on local Zoology and 

 Botany may be found scattered in these Transactions ; 

 very few, however, relate to the special subject of the 

 Report. 



Thomas Comber. Trans., vol. xi, 1859. 



" List of Diatomaceae found in the vicinity of Liverpool." 

 Mr. Comber ofi'ered this paper as a contribution to the Flora 

 of Liverpool, already fairly represented in most of the other 

 groups. The list contains 257 species, included in fifty-one 

 genera, and has been named and arranged after W. Smith. 

 Mr. Comber mentions as his fellow-workers, G. Mansfield 

 Browne, T. Sansom, and L. Hardman. 



Richard A. Tudor. Trans., vol. viii, 1856. 



*' General Remarks on the Natural History of the Shores 

 of the Mersey." Mr. Tudor's name occurs in the Annals, 

 and in the volumes of the Ray Society as a correspondent 

 and fellow-worker with the distinguished authors of Mono- 

 graphs, but his published remains are so uncommon that the 



