234 Linncvan Socielj/. 



March 6. A paper was read, On a new Phaenomenon of 

 Electro-magnetism. By Sir H. Davy, Bart. P.R.S. 



March 13. A. paper was X'ead, On Fhiid Chlorine. By 

 M. Faraday, Esq. Communicated by the President. And the 

 reading of another was commenced, On the Motions of the 

 Eye, in illustration of the Uses of the Muscles of the Orbit. 

 By Charles Bell, Esq. ; likewise communicated by the Presi- 

 dent. 



LINNiEAN SOCIETY. 



March 4. The following papers were read : 



Description of the Skeleton Head of the Long-snouted 

 Alligator of the Ganges, or Lacerta Gangetica of Linnaeus, pre- 

 sented to the Linnsean Society, together with the entire Skele- 

 ton of a young subject of the same species, by Major-Gen. 

 Thomas Hardwicke, F.R.S. &c. 



Description of a Serpent hitherto supposed of the genus 

 Boa, and the Boa Phrygia of Shaw ; but which, on a more 

 minute examination than that able naturalist had the oppor- 

 tunity of making, is found to be a Coluber ; on which account 

 it is proposed to refer it to that family, and to designate it 

 Coluber Phrygius. 



Mr. Sheppard's Catalogue of Suffolk Shells was concluded. 



Mr. Brookes exhibited, after the meeting, a fine living spe- 

 cimen of the Kinkajoo, Viverra caiidivolmda. 



March 1 8. Observations on the generic character of Locusta, 

 with the Description of a remarkable Species. By the Rev. 

 Lansdown Guilding, B.A. F.L.S. &c. With figures. 



" L. camellicefolia, thorace defiexo, elytris concavis sapice 

 rotundatis ala longioribus." Rather frequent on trees in St. 

 Vincent's. 



The Natural History of Phasma Ramtdus. By the Rev. 

 L. Guilding. With figures. 



" P. Ramulus, filiformis, cinereo-rufescens, capite cornuto, 

 pedibus fusco fasciatis, angulatis, subaequalibus." 



Observations on the Genus Ascalaphus, with the Description 

 of a new Species. By the same. With figures. 



" ylscalaphus Macleayanus, alis vitreo-iridescentibus, im- 

 maculatis: oculis thoraceque cupreo-nigris : dorso maculato: 

 ventre cinereo." In thickets in the West India islands, and 

 the adjoining parts of the continent. 



On the Nature of the Marine Production commonly called 

 Flustra arcnosa : considered by Ellis and Gmelin as belong- 

 ing to the order Vermes Zoophyta ; but rather to be considered 

 as the matrix of Nerita Glaiiciiia. By John Hogg, Esq. B.A. 

 F.L.S. St. Pet. Coll. Camb. With a figure. De- 



