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has been frequently recorded, I have killed this tern myself on the Nile, 

 many years since, and the first sight of these birds instantly suggested that 

 species to my mind. I am well aware that there is not much value in 

 noting the occurrence of a bird only half made out, and whose identity is 

 still, as when I saw them, "in nubibus." — IV. Oxenden Hammond; St. 

 Albans Court, Wingham, May 29, 1871. 



Note on the Yonng of the Hermit Crab.— On the 5th of May I examined 

 a mass of the egg-capsules of the whelk, which had been landed in a fishing- 

 net, attached to a large oyster- shell. Each capsule contained several young 

 whelks in perfectly-formed shells, varying in size from a No. 9 to a No. 5 

 shot, the larger-sized specimens being the least numerous. From one of 

 the capsules (which appeared to me never to have been discharged) I took a 

 little whelk-shell, not larger than a No. 5 shot, which contained a perfectly- 

 formed hermit crab about an eighth of an inch in length, and in another 

 capsule I found a second hermit crab of similar size, but not ensconced in a 

 shell. — J. H. Gurney. 



Fossil turtle in the Isle of Wight.— There was in April an extensive 

 foundering of the Culver Cliff, when many fossils were brought to light, — 

 amongst the rest a fossil turtle, which I have had the pleasure of inspecting, 

 and think it a very fine specimen. It measures about three feet in circum- 

 ference, and is well nigh as broad as it is long. It was found in the 

 wealdon deposit, by Mr. Chambers, of Delhi Cottage, Saudown.— iJe/iry 

 Hadfield. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society^ 



Jxme 5, 1871.— J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in 

 the Chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — * Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 128 ; presented by the 

 Society. ' Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society 

 of London,' 1870, Parts 1 — 3 ; by the Society. ' Annales de la Societe 

 Entomologique de Belgique,' tome xiii. ; by the Society. ' Memoires de la 

 Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' tomes iii. & iv., 

 & tome XX., 2^ Partie ; by the Society. ' Synopsis des Cordulines,' par 

 M. Edm. de Selys Longchamps ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist ' for June ; 

 by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for June ; by the 



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