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palustris. He has kindly promised to collect slugs for me in other Irish 

 counties to which he has access, particularly in Kilkenny, and I should be 

 pleased if residents or visitors in other parts of the kingdom would follow 

 his example, and so expedite the task of working out iu detail the variation 

 and distribution of the various species throughout the comities of the 

 British Isles. — Wit, Dknison Roebuck (Sunny Bank, Leeds). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



LlNNEAN SoCIKTY OF LONDON. 



Xovember 1, 1883. — Fkank Ckisp, Esq., Treasurer and Vice-President, 

 iu the chair. 



Messrs. A. Hutton and T. E. Gunn were elected Fellows. 



A donation to the Society of several interesting letters of Linnaeus 

 (1736 — 1769), addressed to <i. D. Ehret, F.R S , an eminent botanical artist 

 ol the last century, was announced by the Chairman, and an unanimous 

 vote of thanks thereupon accorded to the Missus Grover and Mr. Charles 

 Ehret Grover for their valuable donation. 



Mr. Crisp drew attention to specimens, in fluid medium, of Limno- 

 codium Sowerbii, as illustrative of Mr. P. Squire's method of preserving 

 delicate Medusa. 



Mr. W. Fawcett exhibited live specimens of Testacella Mawjei, obtained 

 in Doiftetshire by Mr. J. C. Mansel i'leydell, and supposed to be indigenous 

 to that county. Mr. Fawcett asked for information on its distribution and 

 habits, the other species found in the British Isles {T. haliotidea) being 

 distributed from the Canary Islands to France, but said to be only 

 naturalised in the South-West of England and South of Ireland ; while 

 T. Maugei, with much the same range abroad, and reported frequently as 

 being found at Clifton, was not considered to be even naturalised, it was 

 asked why both species should uot be considered indigenous. With regard 

 to the habits of this shell-slug, Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys speaks of its rivalling the 

 tiger, snake, and shark iu its ferocity and cunning iu search of earthworms. 



A paper was read " On the changes in the Flora and Fauna of New 

 Zealand," by Dr. S. N. Curl, in which he dealt more particularly with the 

 plants, but remarks on the native Black Rat being destroyed by the 

 imported Brown Rat, and to the gradual disappearance of Lizards and 

 Pigeon s. — J . M u u i e . 



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