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of Pleuronectes flesus, taken in deep sea-water, which was coloured on hoth 

 surfaces, and of a more mottled appearance than usual. The only 

 peculiarity I observed was that the lateral line was much more highly 

 arched over the pectorals thau is generally found to be the case. — Thomas 

 Cornish (Penzance). 



PEOTKACHEATA. 



A forgotten Species of Peripatus. — In no account of the species of 

 Peripatus does any writer ever make a reference to a species described by 

 Prof. Schmarda, in his 'Zoologie,' under the name of P. quitensis ; in the 

 second edition of this Handbook, which is now lying before me, the species 

 is figured on p. 76 of vol. ii. It is stated to come " vom aquatorialen 

 Hochland Siidamericas," and with a total length of 26 mm. it has thirty-six 

 pairs of appendages. It is much to be desired that attention should be 

 called to this species, so that travellers in or near the neighbourhood of 

 Quito may make a careful search for it. It is only by repeatedly directing 

 attention to the existence of these rare and not always easily found creatures 

 that we can hope to obtain them. My persistency in appealing to Mr. E. P. 

 Ramsay has been lately rewarded by the arrival of P. leuckarti, which has 

 been found near Wide Bay, Queensland. — F. Jeffrey Bell (in Report of 

 the British Association, 1887). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



February 2, 1888. — W. Carrdthees, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Dr. William Schlich, Mr. Isaac Thompson, and Mr. W. S. M'Millan 

 were formally admitted Fellows of the Society. 



The President called attention to the loss which the Society had 

 sustained by the deaths of Professor Asa Gray, Professor Anton de Bary, 

 and Mr. Irwine Boswell (formerly Syme), which had occurred since the last 

 meeting, and gave a brief review of the life aud labours of each. 



Mr. C. T. Druery exhibited a collection of abnormal British Ferns, 

 and made some remarks on the extraordinary number of named varieties 

 which had been recognised, and which now required to be carefully examined 

 and compared with a view to some systematic arrangement of them. 



Dr. Amadeo exhibited and made some observations on a new species of 

 Tabenuemontana. 



A long and interesting paper was then read by Mr. Henry T. R. Blau- 

 ford on the Ferns of Simla, based upon a collection which^he had himself 



