1851.] Linnean Society. 157 



For the reception of this curious genus, Mr. Miers has found it 

 necessary to constitute a new tribe of the Order to which it belongs, 

 which he subdivides as follows : — 



BlGNONIACE^. 



Trib.l. BiGNONiEiE. Capsula dehiscens, 2-locularis, 2-valvis ; seminibus 

 numerosis alatis compressis, dissepimento utrinque afRxis. Embryo 

 cotyledonibus complanatis foliaceis. 



Trib. 2. CaEscENxiEiE. Fructus drupaceus, lignosus, 2- vel plurilocu- 

 laris; seminibus numerosis alatis v. compressis. Embryo cotyledoni- 

 bus compressis carnosis. 



Trib. 3. Oxyclade;e. Fructus drupaceus, nucem unicam 1-locularem 

 indehiscentem includens ; semine solitario suspense rotundato. Em- 

 bryo radicula superiore ; cotyledonibus magnis fere hemispb£ericis car- 

 nosis. 



Figures of both genera with detailed dissections accompanied the 

 paper. 



December 16. 



R. Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Read a Letter from Mr. Hogg, F.R.S., F.L.S. &c., to the Secre- 

 tary, recording the capture of two species of Pipe-fish (Syngnathus) 

 during the last summer, the one near the mouth of the river Tees, 

 the other in that river near Middlesborough, by the same person, a 

 fisherman of Stockton. The first of these, Syngnathus Typhle, L., 

 measured 15f inches in length, and the formula of its fins, which 

 differs in the descriptions of Donovan and Jenyns, was as follows : — 

 D. 39 ; C. 10 ; A. (rubbed off") ; P. 13 ? The second, S. cequoreus, L., 

 was 17|^ inches long; its dorsal fin had thirty-nine rays; and the 

 caudal fin was obsolete, or rather rudimentary, the rays to the 

 number of three (or perhaps four) being inclosed within the skin of 

 the body ; the tail was flattened at the extremity. 



Read also, a " Note on the Natural History of Shetland." By 

 Adam White, Esq., F.L.S. &c. 



In this note, after referring to Dr. Hibbert's researches into the 

 mineral riches of Shetland, to Dr. Fleming's contributions to its 

 zoology, to Mr. Dunn's interesting work on its birds, and Mr. Hewit- 

 son's investigation of their eggs, and to the fruitful results of the 



