184 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
found nesting was the Stone Curlew, or Thick-knee.—T. Granam Batrour 
(Cotton House, Marlborough). 
Pinot-Fish aND Gray Mu.tiet.—On February 14th a_ Pilot-fish 
(Gasterosteus ductor) was taken in a herring-net off Plymouth, and on the 
26th of that month an immense shoal of Gray Mullet was captured when 
the water was pumped out of the “ graving” or dry dock of the Great 
Western Docks, Plymouth. This shoal consisted of many thousand fish, 
which were sold for the large sum of £215 for the Paris market. A large 
number of these fish measured nearly twenty inches in length, and weighed 
four or five pounds each, many of them much more.—JoHn GatcoMBE 
(8, Lower Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth). 
AneuLtar Crap near F'atmouru.—lI have lately received a specimen 
of the Angular Crab (Gonoplax angulata) captured in Veryan Bay, near 
Falmouth.—THomas CornisH (Penzance). 
[This Crab has been frequently taken on the South coast of England 
and on the Irish coast, but does not appear to have been met with on the 
eastern seaboard or in Scotland.—Ep. | 
Unvusvat Hrpine-piacre ror Froeas.—One of my farmers, who is very 
observant in matters of Natural History, told me that about a month ago, 
on taking in a straw-rick, he had found a party of five or six frogs all 
comfortably nestled together on the very apex of the rick, which was some 
fifteen or sixteen feet high, and that he had found them in the same kind 
of place more than once. This says a good deal for the frog’s power of 
climbing, for the straw having been ricked as it came only from the threshing 
machine, they could not have been carried up in it inadvertently. I did 
not know before they had such a claim to be ranked amongst the 
Scansores.—Artruur P. Morres (Britford Vicarage, Salisbury). 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean Socrety or Lonpon. 
February 18, 1877.—Prof. Auumay, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
Messrs. William Burns, E. T, Gardner, J. W. S. Micklejohn, Professor 
W. W. Harrington of Michigan, U.S., the Rev. John Stubbs, and Sir Charles 
W. Strickland, Bart., were elected Fellows at this meeting. 
Mr. Arthur Lister exhibited under the microscope a most interesting 
example of the plasmodium of one of the lowly-organized Mywxomyceta. 
This common mass of protoplasm well illustrated the peculiar ameeboid 
movements, and the object gave rise to an animated conversational discus- 
sion as to its oft-contested animal or vegetable nature. Professor Haeckel 
evades this knotty point by provisionally grouping it along with certain 
other doubtful organisms in his kingdom Prostita. 
