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fed regularly Bince captivity with raw meat, oysters, &c. about twice a week. Two 

 individuals, measuring each about one inch in diameter, when expanded, were located 

 on a piece of roct. On Saturday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, on syringing 

 the lank, according to custom, I observed that the mouth of one of them was un- 

 usually and very greatly distended; the fissure reaching almost across the disk of the 

 anemone, whose circular appearance was thereby changed for an irregular loop-shaped 

 form.* On reaching home, about five o'clock, I found, to my astonishment, that 

 fission had taken place, and that the object of interest had, by some wonderful meta- 

 morphosis, become two distinct creatures, each about as large as a fourpenny-piece. 

 They had moved apart and were partially expanded, looking none the worse for 

 Nature's operation. I have since fed them and they appear quite at home, though a 

 little ragged at one side of the column where the fissure occurred. I had noticed for 

 several weeks past that the opaque whiteness of my snowy friends had changed for a 

 pearly hue ; and I had a strong impression that one, if not two others, will eventually 

 multiply in this manner. With the exception of A. Cerens, if my memory is correct, 

 I do not find any other instance of this kind mentioned in your ' Actiuologia,' to which 

 I immediately referred for a precedent. Have you met with any other of the S. Ich- 

 thystome since the two described in your ' Actinologia'? I have what appears to me 

 a specimen, although its colours are not so brilliant as the figure in your plate ii. It 

 was brought from Weymouth (the correct locality), on an oyster-shell, a wee little 

 thing, which I have once fed up (when expanded) to the size of a silver twopenny-piece : 

 it seems very hardy. A fine A.Dianthus (of orange-buff colour), in my possession, 

 has just moved its quarters, and left a small portion of its base, which is rapidly 

 assuming the shape of a young individual. This is further in confirmation of your 

 excellent description of this beautiful anemone. — W. R. Hughes; the General Hospilaly 

 Birmingham, February 20, 1862. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 March 3, 1862. — Frederick Smith, Esq., President, in the chair. 



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 donors:—' Proceedings of the Eoyal Society,' vol. xi. No. 47; presented by the Royal 

 Society. ' The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, and Proceedings of the Natural 

 History Society of Montreal, conducted by a Committee of the Natural History 

 Society,' vol. vi. ; by the Society. ' The Zoologist ' for March ; by the Editor. ' The 

 Intellectual Observer,' Nos. 1 and 2; by the publishers, Messrs. Groombridge and 

 Sons. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for February; by the Society. 'The 

 Literary Gazette ' for February ; by the Editor. ' The Athenaeum ' for February ; by 

 the Editor. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the 



* My correspondent subsequently suggested a figure of 8, ot two circles slightly 

 overlapping, as conveying a clearer idea of the form. — P. H. G. 



