LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOK'DON. vii 



Head, first, a Paper " On the Cranial Characters of a Eat new to 

 the British Fauna ;" by S. James A. Salter, Esq., M.B., F.L.S. 



Eead, secondly, " On the Moulting of the Common Lobster 

 {Homarm vulgaris) and Shore-Crab (Carcinm manas) ;" by S. 

 James A. Salter, Esq., M.B., F.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceed- 

 ings," vol. iv. p. 30.) 



Eead, thirdly, a Note " On the Habits of the Aye- Aye {Chei- 

 romys madagascariemis) ;" by Henry Sandwith, Esq., M.D., C.B., 

 in a letter to Professor Owen, E.E.S., V.P.L.S. (See " Zoological 

 Proceedings," vol. iv. p. 28.) 



April 21st, 1859. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



John Eorbes Watson, Esq., M.D., was elected a FeUow. 



A Letter was read from ]Mr. A. G. Moore, F.L.S. , mentioning 

 the occui-rence in considerable numbers of Sqiiilla Desmarestii off 

 Sea View and Bembridge, and of Vespertilio murinus about the 

 cliffs at Freshwater, in the Isle of "Wight. 



A Letter was also read from Thomas Forster, Esq., M.B., F.L.S., 

 giving some account of the phenomena of the present season on 

 the French coast ; and an Extract of a Letter from Albert Ham- 

 brough, Esq., F.L.S., announcing the discovery, on the sea-shore 

 at Ventnor, of a rather scarce sheU, Vertigo cylindrica. 



Eead, fixst, " Eemarks on Gnetum ; " by the late AVilliam 

 Griffith, Esq., M.D., F.L.S. Communicated, with a Prefatory 

 ]S^ote, by Professor Henfrey, F.E.S., F.L.S. (See " Transactions," 

 vol. xxii. p. 299.) 



Eead, secondly, a " Note on the species of Croton described by 

 Linnaeus, under the names of Clutia Eluteria and Clutia Casca- 

 rilh-/' by John Josepli Bennett, Esq., F.E.S., Sec. L.S. (See 

 " Botanical Proceedings," vol. iv. p. 26.) 



