1890.] Address. 110 



to be the Lost of a 23a,rasitic Myzostoma, wliicli also infested some of the 

 Antedon. 



Cit'leiitera. — Prof. A. M. Marshall and Mr. G. H. Fowler report that 

 the Mergui collection of Pennatulida is also an interesting one, con- 

 taining representatives of five genera and ten species, of which two are 

 new and five others very rare. 



In SpengeVs Zoologische Jahrhiicher, Dr. O. Ortmann remarks on 

 some Rock-Corals from the south coast of Ceylon, chiefly from the 

 collection of Prof. Haeckel. 



In the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Mr. Arthur Dendy reports on a 

 second collection of sponges made by Mr. Thurston of the Madras 

 Museum, in the neighbourhood of the Tuticorin pearl-banks and the 

 Gulf of Manaar. It contains 14 new species and two new varieties, 

 among them a new species of Aidetta, a genns which has hitherto 

 only been found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. The author 

 remarks on the value of the colours of living sponges as a means of 

 distinguishing' species. 



In SpengeVs Zool. Jahrbuch. there is a vahiable paper, by R. von 

 Lendenfeld, on the Horny Sponges. 



Protozoa. — Bamulina parasitica, a new species of fossil Foraminifera 

 infesting OrhitoUtes ManteUi, from strata on the west bank of the Irra- 

 waddy, just below Thayet Myo, is described by the veteran Indian 

 geologist and zoologist, Mr. H. J. Carter, in the Annals and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., with compai'ative observations on the process of reproduction in 

 the Mijcetozoa, freshwater Uhizopoda and Foraminifera. The same 

 writer's further observations on Orbigny's genus Orhitoides, have also 

 an interest for the Indian zoologist. The same journal contains Mr. 

 H. B. Brady's paper on the Reticularian new genus Masonella, with 

 descriptions of two species, from the " Investigator " dredgings in the 

 Bay of Bengal. 



I must not omit to mention Prof. Haeckel's grand monograph of the 

 Badiolaria, of which Part IV has lately been presented to the Society 

 by the author. 



Botany. 



Our Journal contains several valuable botanical papers. Mr. 

 H. F. Blanford's List of the Ferns of Simla, referred to in last year's 

 address, has been published, with 6 plates, and should prove a useful 

 guide to the Himalayan fern-collector. The list includes 101 species 

 and varieties. Dr. Barclay continues his descriptive list of the Uredinece 

 occurring in the neighbourhood of Simla, and has described sixteen 

 species of Pvxcinia occurring on hosts other than grasses and sedges, 



