64 Proceedings of the British Association. 
city has been ages ‘several days without water, taking only 
a handful of r eir flesh is considered equal to venison, _ 
being common . sa by the Peruvians, who state the slaughter 
of them for food to be about four millions annually. ‘The impor 
tation of the alpaca wool in 1839, is stated at one million pounds, — 
and within the last year at three millions. — It seemed, however, 
doubtful whepher the animal could be made to ee in Great 
Britain. 
Prof. Agassiz made a communication on b+ He fied in Red 
Snow. He stated that Shuttleworth had lately demonstrated 
that a the Protococcus nivalis, the red snow penipiiest sev- 
, 
produto and that the so-called Protococcus ni s the ova of 
a species of rotiferous animal called by Ehrenbe hilodina ro- 
seola. This animalcule he had found dead in the red snow, and 
abundantly in ditches in the neighborhood, at the bottom of 
which its ova produced a red deposit. Under the microscope the 
colored ova in the ovaries could be distinctly observed. He had 
also seen the infusoria described by Shuttleworth. 
The following papers were also communicated to this Section. 
On the preservation of animal and vegetable substances; by Prof. Henslow 
and the c ee. 
Further Msc on the British Ciliograda; by Edward Forbes and John 
On the plants and animals found in the sulphureous springs of Askera and Har- 
rowgate, Yorkshire ; by Dr. Lankesier. 
n the structure of fishes; by Dr. Macdonald, 
On the regeneration of lost organs discharging the functions of the head and 
viscera, by the Holothuria and Amphitrite, two marine animals; by Sir John G. 
Dalyell 
Report of a committee eaauaiers to dredge various parts of the Coasts of Great 
Britain for marine anima 
On an anomalous asin of the plum observed in the gardens of the province of 
New Brunswick ; by Prof. Robb. 
On the identity of the fish called the parr with the fry of the salmon ; by Messrs 
Shaw and Wilso 
On the true shes of discovering the natural system in Zoology and Botany ; 
by Hugh Strickland. 
On the organs of sense in the Salmon ; by Dr. Liz 
On a new Salmon-stair, with a model; by Mr. Smith, of Deanston 
On the development of the embryo in the ova of Rahéa, more ‘apecially of the 
family Salmonide ; by Prof. Agassiz. 
On a new genus of Ascidians, viz. Pelonaia ; by Messrs. Forbes and Goodsir. 
pie as Meduse ; by Mr. Patterson. 
various: es of fishing employed by Indians in the West of Guiana; 
by "i. Schomburg 
& e of Pa 
