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male of the gemiTifous draooncl) : 9 of the genus Gadus ; 

 and '2 Blennius. Of the Tlioravici he stated 22 species, be- 

 longing to nine genera : 1 Gobius ; 2 Cutuis ; 2 Zeus, the 

 doree and the opah, (a specimen of ihis last most resplen- 

 dent fish having been taken oft' Cramoiid in the Frith of 

 Forth, some years ago, and being still preserved in the mu- 

 seum of P. Walker, esq.) ; 7 Pieuronecles ; ) Sparus, the 

 toothed gilt-head, (a rare lii^h, of which only two specimens 

 have occurred in the Frith of Forth) ; G Perca ; 3 Gastcros- 

 teus ; with 1 Trigla. Of the AbdominaLes he had ascertained 

 14 species, belonging to seven genera: 1 Cobitis; 4 Salmo; 

 3 Esox, the pike, gnr-pike, and the saury or gandanook, 

 (which last, though rare in England, is not, it appears, un- 

 common at Edinburgh,"but arrives in the Frith almost every 

 autumn in large shoals) ; 1 Atherina ; 3 CUipea. Of the 

 genus Cyprinus, of which no fewer than ten species inhabit 

 tltc rivers and ponds of bingland, (including the carp, tench, 

 gudgeon, dace, roach, bream, &c.), only one insig- iticant 

 species, the author remarked, is found for n)any miles 

 around the Scottish metropolis, viz. the common nunow. 

 Of the genus Scomber, the mackrel is got in the entrance 

 of the Frith of Forth. Mr. Neill reserved the notice of the 

 Amplilbia Nantes of Linnaeus, includmg the Ray and Shark 

 tribes, to a future meeting. 



XXXI. Intelligence and Miicellanco-us Articles. 



nUPTURED POOR. 



JL HE City Truss Society for the relief of the Ruptured Poor, 

 upon a plan some time ago reconmiended to the public 

 through the medium of this and other Journals, has at length 

 assumed a regular form. The riglit honourable tlie Lord Mavor 

 tor the lime being is president, and (ho coiTuuittce for manag- 

 ing the affairs of the charity consists of twenty- four governors:, 

 among whom arc some of the first medical characters in the 

 metropolis. The Governors of the City Dispensarv have 

 generously permitted the affairs of the above Society to be 

 conducted at ihcir establishment in Grocers-Hall Court, 

 K4 Poult rv. 



