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made in his paper upon the earthquake at Brighton in April, 1873, that 
it was felt by a gentleman walking along the King’s-road. This was 
not quite correct. According to a letter signed “M. F.,” and dated 
6th April, 1873, which appeared in the 77mes, repeated trembles were 
felt in a house in King’s-road about ten minutes to eleven o’clock at 
night by persons capable of distinguishing the vibrations from those of 
a passing vehicle. The earthquake of 1734 he had represented as 
being felt only as far east as Shoreham, but he ascertained that it was 
felt at Lewes, and within twenty miles of the sea coast, thus giving it 
a much wider range than he had imagined it assumed. 
JUNE 25TH. 
MICROSCOPICAL MEETING.—A MARINE EVENING. 
—MR. H. LEE ON “YOUNG LOBSTERS.” 
Mr. LEE having brought over from the Aquarium living specimens 
of young Lobsters, coronacti and madrepore, Mr. WONFOR placed 
one of them under the microscope, and informed the member's present 
of Mr. Lee’s kindness, reminding them how willing that gentleman 
was to communicate information to them, and expressed their grati- 
tude to Mr. Lee for his attention. He then observed, with reference 
to the young Lobster, that naturalists believed at first that it wasa 
distinct species of crustacea, but that they had now ascertained what 
it really was. 
Mr. LEE drew attention to the abnormal size of the eye of the 
young Lobster, the peculiar feet which existed in all larve of crustacea, 
and the spatulate instead of the five-lobed or divided tail, as possessed 
by the adult. In order to show that the animal really constituted a 
subject of modern investigation, he remarked that he once entered 
into argument respecting young Lobsters with Mr. Lord, the late 
Curator of the Aquarium, and now deceased, and he denied that Mr. 
Bell, in one of his works, was right in attributing spatulate tails to 
them ; but afterwards, having been shown a specimen through the 
microscope, he acknowledged that Mr, Bell’s opinion was quite correct. 
