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on the other, uiulor the relations of the specific nature and the 

 anomalies of their forms. 



October 4. — M. de Saint-Hilaire concluded his memoir. 



October 18. — M. Gaymard read some observations on certain 

 Mollusca and Zoophytes considered as giving rise to the phos- 

 phorescence of the sea. M. Dumeril gave a verbal account of a 

 Zoological and Physiological Treatise on the Intestinal Worms of 

 the Human Body, by M. Bremser. M. G. de Saint-Hilaire pre- 

 sented a lithographic print, entitled, Determination of the Sec- 

 tions of the Cranium in Fishes; Composition of the Skull in 

 Man and in Animals. To this were annexed an engraving and a 

 manuscript note : M. de Saint-Hilaire announced that he should 

 develope his ideas on the subject in several memoirs speedily 

 to be published. 



Art, LXXI. Scientific Notices. 



RADIAUIA:— ALECTO — COMATULA. 



Dr. Leach has requested us to state that he divided the genus 

 named by him Alecto, from Asterias, in his Zoological Miscellany, 

 vol. ii. p^ 61, in the year 1815; which was afterwards named 

 Comatula, by Lamarck, in 1816, in his Histoire Naturelle des 

 Animaux sans Vertebres, vol. ii. p. 530. 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



The geographical distribution of the Animal Kingdom is a 

 subject of so much interest, that we feel much pleasure in having 

 an opportunity of adding to our readers' information on this point, 

 by noticing the following instances of some rare British Bird 

 having been met with in Ireland. A specimen of the Merops 

 apiaster, Linn, was killed on the sea-shore near Wexford in the 

 winter of 1820, and is at present in the collection of James Tardy 



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