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Article VII. 



ANALYSES OF BOOKS. 



Proceedings cf.the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Part III. 



This Number contains, 1. An address by the President. 2. A de- 

 scription of Natiea helicoides, a new British shell. By Dr. George 

 Johnston. The characters are, Shell ovato-conical, smooth, white, 

 immaculate, covered with a yellowish epidermis ; whorls 5, rounded, 

 separated by a channelled suture, the spire produced and rather 

 obtuse; aperture pure white, with a small fissure on the pillar. 

 Length six-tenths ; breadth scarcely four-tenths. Hab. Berwick 

 Bay. Obs. This new species was found in the refuse of a fishing- 

 boat. When the epidermis is removed, the whorls appear to be 

 finely striolate in a spiral direction. Animal unknown. 



3. List of the Malacostraca Pvdophthalma found on the coasts 

 of Berwickshire and North Durham. By Mr. R. Embleton, Surgeon. 

 In this list the author describes a new species of Galathea to which 

 he has given the specific name nexa. Its characters are arms hir- 

 sute, large ; the hand without spines, the wrist with a single one on 

 the inner side, or, when two, the anterior is much the smaller ; 

 ligament of the shell brown. Three specimens of this hitherto un- 

 observed species have only been found, two in Berwick bay, and the 

 other in Embleton bay. 



4. Contributions to the Flora of Berwickshire. 



5. Remarks on the mode of formation of the " Fairy Stones" 

 found near Melrose. By the Rev. A. Baird. A description and 

 figure of these have been given in Records, vol. ii. 1. The author 

 supposes that they are stalactites. This is, however, impossible, be- 

 cause they consist essentially of an insoluble, mechanically formed 

 rock. They most likely have been produced by the action of the 

 water at the bottom of a fall, where round basins, and a variety of 

 figures may often be observed. An examination of the locality would 

 determine the origin. 



6. A catalogue of the Bivalved Shells found on the coast of 

 Berwickshire and North Durham. By Dr. Johnston. These amount 

 to 70. The rarest are Pecten. lineaius, P. spinosus, Limafraailis, 

 Area fusca, KeUia rubra, Anatina pubescens, Tellina crassa, 

 Psammobiaflorida, Astarte compressa and Mya vorvegica. The 

 cockle and mussel are common. Tbe clams (Pectinidce) are rare, 

 except the small obsoletus which is the favourite food of the flounder. 

 The only oyster-bed is in the channel between Holy Island and the 

 main land, and is the private property of the Earl of Tankerville. 

 In the inventory of the Priory of Holy Island for 1381-2, there is 

 an item of expenditure for " a sloop (naricula) bought of a certain 

 Scotchman {de auodavi skotb) with the oysters and other goods con- 

 tained in it, lOGs." 



7. Catalogue of Insects found at Berwick-upon-Tweed, in August, 

 1834. By Charles C. Babington. 



8. Notice of the Parr. By Sir William Jardine, Bart. — (See 

 Records, vol. iii. p. 200.) 



