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phy, soil and climate of the neighbourhood of Kurrachee, of the road 

 from Kurrachee to Hydrabad, and of that between Hydrabad and 

 Roree; secondly, of lists of the more remarkable plants arranged 

 according to the stations in which they were found ; thirdly, of com- 

 parative estimates of the prevalent proportions of the principal Na- 

 tural Orders as compared with the Flora of India generally ; fourthly, 

 of lists of the characteristic plants of Scinde, and of those which 

 predominate in the number of individuals to such an extent as to 

 give a peculiar character to the face of the country ; and lastly, of 

 an indication of those species by which the Flora of Scinde is con- 

 nected severally with those of Cabool, of Arabia, of Egypt, and of 

 the Punjaub and Delhi. 



In a postscript to his letter, which was accompanied by a packet 

 of specimens. Dr. Stocks refers to Captain Vicary's paper on the 

 Plants of Scinde, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta 

 for November 1847*, which he had received subsequently to writing 

 the letter, and to his own remarks printed by Sir William J. Hooker, 

 from a letter addressed to him in the Supplement to the Botanical 

 Magazine for September. He desires that Captain Vicary's pub- 

 lished names of various species may be substituted for his own 

 MS. names ; and remarks that Captain Vicary's jEgialitis is a true 

 Statice ; his Breweria evolvuloides is Seddera latifolia, Hochst. and 

 Steud. ; his Calligonum polygonoides is certainly a new genus, for 

 which Dr. Stocks had in his MSS. proposed the name of Gibsonia ; 

 his Monsonia Asiatica is M. Laiviann, Stocks, in Calcutta Journal, 

 1846 ; his Zygophyllum obtusum is Z. simplex, L. ; his Corchorus de- 

 pressus is C. humilis, Munro ; his frutescent Crambe is a species of 

 Didesmus, D. panduriformis, Stocks ; and his Cadaba Indica is a fine 

 Capparis, probably new, and found also in Arabia. Dr. Stocks pro- 

 poses the name of Vicarya for a new genus of MalvacecB which he 

 purposes describing, along with Gibsonia and Sericostoma, a new 

 genus of Boraginea, in the next number of the Bombay Asiatic 

 Journal. 



April 18.— T. Horsfield, M.D., V.P., in the Chair. 



Read a continuation of Mr. Newport's Third Memoir " On the 

 Anatomy and Development of Meloe." 



The author remarked that every normal change in structure de- 

 pends on definite laws, and that when the proper operation of these 

 is impeded, or when change is effected by violence, the function of 

 structure is impaired. 



After mentioning that Malpighi, in his anatomy of the Silk- worm, 

 glanced at, and Dr. Willis, in this country, at the end of the seven- 

 teenth century, more particularly announced, the view that changes 

 in structure in all animals are regulated by those general principles 

 which have since been so admirably worked out by Geoffroy Saint- 

 Hilaire, Mr. Newport stated that his object in the present memoir 

 is to further exemplify these principles in the Anatomy oiMeloe, and 



* Reprinted in this Journal for June, 1848. 

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