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pole-cat, niartiu, and water-rat. Of bats there was only one. He 

 solicited the assistance of members in supplyinfr the deficiency, the 

 Museum being much resorted to by natural history students. 

 Before concluding, he threw fiut a practical suggestion to Mr. 

 Sawyer, by the adoption of which he might be enabled to compile 

 a complete and valuable list of the names and particulars of the 

 birds of Sussex, of which there were a very large number, the 

 county being favourably situated for the place of arrival and 

 dcpartui-e of migratory birds. 



Mr. C. F. Dennet also pleaded on behalf of the Museum, and 

 personally thanked Mr. Sawj^er for his paper. 



Mr. G. D. Sawyer and others likewise took part in the 

 discussion. 



April 27th. 



]\nCROSCOPICAL MEETING.— MR. T. \V. WONEOR 

 ON "ELEAS." 



In consequence of domestic circumstances, Mr. C. F. Deunet, 

 who was to have read a paper on "Vegetable Textile Fibres, micro- 

 scopically considered," was unable to be present ; and in his 

 absence, 



Mr. T. W. WoNFOE made some extemporaneous remarks upon 

 a flea new to science, received since the last meeting, from Mr. 

 Curties, of Holborn. In a letter received from Mr. Curties he said 

 " Since I shewed the Ceylon fleas at your soiree, Mr. Westwood has 

 raised them from the pulex and ranks them with the chigoes, and 

 as I have given the Society specimens of the former I will add to 

 the cabinet the latter; some day I may be able to give you a 

 portion of the skin ; showing the creatures en masse."^ Its chief 

 peculiarity was that it attached itself to the eyes and neck of 

 domestic fowls. In some I'espects it resembled the chigo and in some 

 the common flea, but, unlike the former, did not bnry itseK in the 

 body of the animal to which it attached itself. The name 

 proposed for it, regarding its more prominent habit, was the 

 sarcopxyllu>; galUnaccus. As there were specimens of the chigo in 

 their cabinet, he might explain in what respect this new flea difi'ered 



