188 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
miilleri (Maurolicus pennantit), which he obtained under the following 
circumstances ;—On April 1st, seeing some men drawing a seine-net on the 
Yarmouth side of the entrance to the river Yare, he stopped to examine 
the refuse from the net, and amongst other small fry found the subject of 
this notice, which he says he recognised from his remembrance of the figure 
in Couch’s work. Mr. Patterson very kindly sent the fish to me; but having 
been roughly handled, it reached me in a very dilapidated condition, and, in 
order to place the occurrence beyond doubt, I sent it on to Mr. Francis Day, 
who was good enough to confirm our conclusions. In 1886 Mr. Robert 
Gray sent me one of these little fishes in spirits, and in capital condition, 
which he had taken on the 1st August of that year, in lat. 73° 12’ North, 
long. 1 ° 28’ West, somewhere to the north-west of Jan Mayen (¢f. Zool. 
1886, p. 181). This specimen I also sent to Mr. Day, who described it in 
‘Nature’ of the 14th Oct. 1886. <A fish believed to be of the same species 
has been found as far south as the Mediterranean; it therefore appears to 
have a very extensive range, if indeed they are identical, which, judging 
from the diversity in the figures I have seen, may not be the case, or the 
difference in appearance may arise from the specimens figured being in 
more or less perfect condition, owing to their extreme delicacy and the ease 
with which the scales become detached.—T. SourHwEx1 (Norwich). 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean Soctety or Lonpon. 
March 21, 1889.—Mr. CarrutHers, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
Messrs. H. B. Hewetson, W. Narramore, W. J. Rabbits, and M. B. 
Slater were elected Fellows. 
Mr. T. Christy exhibited the pod, thirty-six inches in length, of an 
Apocynaceous plant received from the Gaboon as Strophanthus, but believed 
to be allied to Holarrhena. 
Prof. Stewart, referring to the specimens of Noctilio leporinus exhibited 
at the last meeting of the Society, stated that he had examined the contents 
of the stomachs submitted to him by Mr. Harting, and had found without 
doubt fragments of fish-scales, and fin-rays, and a portion of the lower jaw 
of a small fish, proving the correctness of the assertions which had been 
made regarding the piscivorous habits of this Bat. 
Mr. W. B. Hemsley furnished a report on the botanical collections 
made on Christmas Island during the voyage of the ‘ Kgeria.’ This 
included a complete list of the plants collected, with remarks on their 
general distribution, the author being of opinion that the flora of this island, 
which lies about 200 miles south of the western end of Java, was more 
