430 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The British Association.—A typographical error occurred in our last 
number under this heading. The address of the President of Section D. 
Biology (Prof. M‘Intosh), on the Phosphorescence of Marine Animals, will 
be found printed in ‘ Nature’ for Sept. 17th (obviously not Nov. 17th, as 
previously stated). Amongst other papers read at the meeting were the 
following :—On the causes of dissimilarity in the Faunas of the Red Sea 
and Mediterranean, by Prof. E. Hull; on Megaptera longimana and other 
Whales obtained in the Tay (L), and on the Cervical Vertebre of the 
Greenland Right Whale (2), by Prof. Struthers; on the Anatomy of 
a second specimen of Sowerby’s Whale from Shetland, by Prof. Turner; 
since published in eatenso (Journ. Anat. and Phys., October, 1885, 
pp. 144-188); on the development of the Vertebre of the Elephant 
(1), and the foot of the Horse (2), by Prof. Struthers; on the Viscera of 
Gymnotus electricus, by Prof. Cleland; on the Spiracle of Fishes in its rela- 
tion to the head as developed in the higher Vertebrates, by Prof. Cleland ; 
a new Theory of the Sense of Pain, by Prof. Hayward; on the Hybridiza- 
tion of Salmonida, by Dr. F. Day (vide infra); on Chinese Insect White 
Wax, by A. Hosie; on the size of the Brain in Extinct Animals, by Prof. 
O.C. Marsh; on the systematic position of the Chameleon, and its 
affinities with the Dinosauria, by D’Arey W. Thompson: on the origin of 
the Fishes of Galilee, by Prof. Hull; and on the Marine Laboratory at 
St. Andrews, by Prof. M‘Intosh. A précis of each of these and some 
other papers which were also read will be found printed in ‘ Nature’ for 
October 8th. 
Haggerston Entomological Society. — We hear that a _pocket-box 
exhibition of eutomological specimens is to be held on Thursday, Nov. 
12th, at 8.30 p.m., at No. 10, Brownlow Street, Dalston, when the kind 
co-operation of entomologists is invited. Communications may be made to 
the Secretary, Mr. Ernest Anderson, at the above address. 
MAMMALIA. 
Deer striking with their fore feet—On reading the extract from Lord 
Malmesbury’s ‘“‘ Memoirs,” and the reviewer’s remark thereon (p. 897), I 
have been reminded of two instances of a somewhat similar nature. Some 
years ago a friend of mine was waiting for a train at one of the forest 
stations (Lyndhurst, I believe), when he saw a deer, hard pressed by the 
hounds, make for the line, not far from the point where he was standing ; 
but a previous long run prevented it from leaping the fence, and it was 
brought to bay, when it turned its back to the fence and fought the hounds 
desperately with its fore feet. So intent was it in defending itself that a 
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