for travelling in tlie pocket, under which was 

 shoAVTi soundings from the Mediterranean, &c. 



(Jet. An evening for Specimens, when Mr Onions 

 distributed a large number of chen-y galls 

 from the oak, and exliibited a piece of granite 

 chipped off a mass, some tons weight, tiu-ned 

 up in Herts by a steam plough. There were 

 also exhibited by Mr Noakes, Nitella Hyalina, 

 in very healthy condition, gi'owing in a closed 

 jar, where it was planted 14 months before ; 

 by Dr. Hallifax, some very good microphoto- 

 graphs taken by himself; by j\Jj.' Hennah, 

 some very beautiful microphotographs taken 

 by him with magnesium and oxycalcium 

 lights ; by Mr Dennant, some Australian trap- 

 door spiders with their burrows, — the beau- 

 tiful hinge and lining of the crypts was much 

 admired ; by Dr. Humby (displayed under the 

 microscope), some Cristatelht miicedo, in great 

 activity ; by Mr Wonfor, several humming- 

 bird hawk moths (macroglossa stellatiirum) 

 taken by him a few days before, and a collec- 

 tion of beekitos forwarded from Torquay to 

 him, by Mr Home, of which he gave some 

 account : Beekites, named after their dis- 

 coverer. Dr. Beek, are a peculiar form of 

 pebble found in the Torbay conglomerates 

 and vary in size, from h an inch to a foot in 

 diameter. Their surfaces are covered with 

 Chalcedninj, arranged in tubercles, around 

 which are generally one or more rings. The 

 tul5ercles vary in size, from a j)in's head to 

 a small pea. When a beekite is broken its 

 interior is found to be cfilearcous. The nucleus 

 is generally found decomposing, sometimes 



