156 Eighth Meeting of the British Association, 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, EIGHTH 



MEETING, HELD AT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. 



Section of Zoology and Botany. 



President. — Sir W. Jardine, Bart. 



Vice-Presidents. — R. K. Greville, LL.D., Rev. L. Jenyns, Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Secretaries. — Messrs. John Edward Gray, R. Owen, John Richardson, M.D. 



Assistant Secretary. — Prof. T. Rymer Jones. 



Committee. — Messrs. Joshua Alder, John Adamson, C. C. Babington, 



J. E. Bowman, — Bowman, W. Backhouse, Thomas Bell, Thomas Coulter, 



M.D., Messrs. J. H. Fryer, George T. Fox, Albany Hancock, W. C. 



Hewitson, Hon. T. H. Liddell, Mr. Edwin Lankester, Prof. Morren, of 



Liege, Patrick Neill, LL.D., Mr. George Ord (Philadelphia), R. Parnell, 



M.D., Mr. W. Robertson, Capt. James Ross, R.N., Messrs. P. J. Selby, 



W. Thompson, G. Wailes, T. Teale, W. C. Trevelyan, W. Yarrell, Richard 



Taylor, Rev. W. Hincks, Capt. J. Cook, R.N., Messrs. J. Allis, Arthur 



Strickland, H. Watson, G. B. Sowerby, Prof. Ehrenberg, Joseph Woods, 



Prof. Graham, M.D. 



The following communications were laid before the Section ; 

 some of which, or authentic abstracts, will be given in our present 

 and succeeding Numbers. 



Aug. 20. — On the Botany of the Channel Islands; by C. C. Ba- 

 bington, Esq. — On the Formation of Angular Lines on the Shells of 

 certain MoUusca ; by J. E. Gray, Esq, 



Aug. 21.— On the Wild Cattle of Chillingham Park; by J. Hind- 

 marsh, Esq., of Alnwick. — On the Production of Vanilla in Europe; 

 by Prof. Morren, of Liege. — On some new and rare Species of Bri- 

 tish Fish ; by Dr. Parnell. — On the Falco Islandicus of authors ; 

 by Mr. J. Hancock. — On the Canis jubatus ; by Col. Sykes. — On 

 some Vegetable Monstrosities ; by the Rev. W. Hincks. 



Aug. 22. — On the Gemmiferous Bodies and Vermiform Filaments 



of Actinia ; by Mr. T. P. Teale Account of an Inosculation in two 



Trees ; by Mr. Wallace. — On a new Species of Ascaris ; by Dr. Bel- 

 lingham. — On the Genera Finns and Abies ; by Captain J. E. Cook, 

 R.N. — On the modern Classification of Insects ; by the Rev, F. W. 

 Hope. — On the Ardea alba \ by A. Strickland, Esq. 



Aug. 23. — A verbal report on Infusoria was made by Prof. Ehren- 

 berg*. — Verbal communications were also made by Dr. Parnell on 

 Clupea alba (White Bait) from the Frith of Forth ; by the Rev. Mr. 

 Jenyns on some species of Sorex ; and by Mr. Gray on the Boring 

 of Pholades. — Report on the present state of our knowledge of the 

 Salmonidce of Scotland ; by Sir W. Jarduie. — On the Toes of the 

 African Ostrich, and the number of Phalanges in the Toes of other 



* The substance of this report has been communicated to us by M. Ehren 

 berg, and will be found at p. 12L of our present Number. — Ed. 



