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all in bloom, and including Gl.iucium maritimum, Crithmum mari- 

 timimi, I'euccdauum officinale, Lactiica saligua, Coryza squan-osa, 

 Artcmcsia niaritima, Neottia spiralis. Mrs. "Wareliain presented, 

 as the result of an excursion to Perry Wood, several specimens of 

 Hypnuni, Bryum, Polytrichum, Gynniostomum, Encalypta, Tortula, 

 Parmelia, Cetraria, Cladonia, Scyphophorus, and other cryptoo;amou8 

 plants ; all of which were so beautifully arranged in a dish, as to 

 show how admirably these humble plants may be made subservient 

 to the decoration of the table, and with the advantage of being 

 always available in the winter, when they are in perfection and 

 more gaudy tlowering plants arc not procurable. Colonel Cox 

 brought and dissected before the meeting a globular wasps' nest, 

 and gave instructive observations thereon, especially as regards the 

 habits and economy of Wasps and Bees, and their relations to the 

 great plan of nature. 



Lampreys. — Colonel Cox sent a fine example of Petromyzon 

 marinus, taken in the Stour near Sturiy Mill, May 12. This 

 specimen was a male, thirty-two inches long, weighing about three 

 pounds. The Hon. Secretary gave a lecture on the Lampreys, 

 observing that all the British species inhabit the Stour, and referred 

 for anatomical details to the memoir on these fishes which he had 

 given, with engraved illustrations, in the "Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society," Dec. 6, 1870. There is a flat worm living 

 inside the skull ; which parasite, being new to science, and allied 

 to Neuronaia Monroii of the Codfish family, he has named Neuronaia 

 Lampetraj, as noticed in the Reports of former meetings, recorded 

 in the "Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science," Jan., 1872. 



Extra Meeting, September 16, 1874. 



^Irs. Dean sent a number of flowering plants, including Erigeron 

 acris, which is rare in the district. Mr. Fullagar brought the eggs 

 and recently hatched young of Hydra viridis ; the first appearance 

 of the generative cells was ou March 26 ; they continued to increase 

 up to May 13, and the first young hydras were hatched on the 

 next following 25th of August, just five months after the eggs 

 appeared. 



Rotalorians at Ch<irtham. — As a contribution towards the fauna 

 of East Kent, Colonel Horslcy exhibited a number of Wheel 

 Animalcules collected in fresh water near Chartham, and gave a set 

 of systematic observations on these creatures ; the structure and 

 economy of Tubicoltiria, Melicerta, Floscularia, and Stephanosceros, 

 being described and sho'mi in live specimens iinder his microscope. 



Clavelinadce at IVhitstahle. — With the same object Mr. Sibei-t 

 Saunders brought several Social Ascidians from tlie sea at Whit- 

 stable. He described their structure generally, and the circulation 

 or motion of the blood -in Botryllus and Distoma particularly, 



