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Umbellate Primrose. 
Mr. Hogg, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of an umbellate variety of 
the common primrose (Primula vulgaris, var. 6. of Smith’s ‘English 
Flora’), gathered in Thorp Wood, near Stockton-upon-Tees, on the 
12th of May in the present year. 
Read some Notes ‘ On the Artificial Breeding of Salmon and Trout, 
with Remarks on the Modes of Fecundating their Ova;’ by John 
Hogg, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 
Read also ‘ Notes on the Dipterous Parasites which attack the com- 
mon EKarwig and the Emperor Moth ;’ by George Newport, Esq., 
F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 
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June 21, 1853.—Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Election of Fellows. 
John Samuel Gaskoin, Esq., the Rev. Francis Thomas Macdougall, 
M.A., and S. James A. Salter, Esq., were elected Fellows. 
Note from Nees von Esenbeck. 
Berthold Seemann, Esq., F.L.S., laid before the meeting a commu- 
nication which he had received from Prof. Nees von Esenbeck, Pre- 
sident of the Imperial Leopoldino-Caroline Academy of Naturalists, 
congratulating the Linnean Society, in the name of the Academy, on 
its choice of Prof. Bell as President. 
Earthquake at Sea. 
Read the following Extract of a Letter from T. S. Ralph, Esq., 
A.L.S., to Richard Kippist, Esq., Libr. L.S., dated Jan. 4th, 1853 ; 
Brig Marmion, on her passage (from New Zealand) to Port Phillip :— 
“I shall be rather anxious to hear how the Wellington people have 
gone on since my departure, for on the evening of Saturday last (1st 
of January, 1853), while off—some fifty miles west of—Cape Egmont, 
at 8.30 p.m., we, on board the brig, experienced a horrible shock of 
an earthquake, which caused the vessel to shudder and shake, just as 
if she had grounded on a shingle spit; and indeed, so loud was the 
sound under us, and so great the agitation, that I took it at the time 
to be a case of wreck with us, and knowing the sea was running rather 
