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said to be very courageous, attacking whales 



and fighting with sharks, blacls-fish, &c. Their 

 food consists of mullets, and other small fish. 

 The saw, or, as sailors call it, the sword, is a 

 prolongation of the upper jaw, and is armed on 

 each side by serrations of teeth ; a parrot-fish, 

 from the same coast, so named from the mouth 

 and teeth presenting a fancied resemblance to 

 the beak of a parrot ; the body, which is well 

 protected by spiny scales, is said, during life, 

 to be very resplendent in colour. — Mr. Whately 

 exhibited a curious i^iece of landscape marble, 

 having the appearance of a city — with towers, 

 houses, and steeples — brought from Florence 

 many years ago by Mr. Anderson, travelling 

 tutor to the celebrated Wortley Montagu. — 

 Mr. Geere showed some well-preserved Eoman 

 coins, obtained a few years since near Pul- 

 borough, Sussex, by a man in cleaning a dip- 

 ping-hole. From the circumstance of their 

 being found in large numbers (nearly a barrow- 

 load), and being near a Roman Station, it was 

 considered, at the time, they formed part of a 

 military chest. — Mr. Wonfor exhibited a curious 

 variety of the common jay, in which the three 

 central feathers on each wing were white. This 

 bird was shot at Oving, near Chichester, on 

 March 14th ; moths of this year, among others 

 an Emperor (Saturnia jiavonia-minor) which 

 had emerged on the 17th February; and a 

 hemipterous insect {Tingis hystricellus), new to 

 science, from Ceylon, where it was found, on the 

 under side of the leaves of the Bringall plant, 

 by Mr. Staniforth Green, and forwarded by him 

 to Mr. Curties, of Hclborn. Under the micro- 



