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Ansted's list or in Mr. Cecil Smith's, ' Birds of Guernsey.' — J. Nicoll 

 (Le Vivier, St. Martin's, Jersey). 



Moorhen nesting in a disused Punt. — Wliile shooting on Sutton 

 Heath, near Woodbridge, Suffollt, on October l'2th, I noticed a curious 

 spot for a Waterhen to build her nest ; she had placed it upon the bow end 

 of a disused punt which was lying nearly full of water at the edge of a 

 pond, in full view of everyone passing. I drew the attention of my friends 

 who were shooting with me to it, and we thoroughly investigated the 

 matter, Upon making enquiries of the gentleman farming the land he 

 said that when the nest was built the punt was rather more concealed by 

 overhanging boughs. — E. C. Moor (Great Bealings, Woodbridge, Suffolk). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



LiNNEAN SOCIETV OF LoNDON. 



Januarij 20, 1887. — William Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. John Benbow and Mr. Fiennes L. Y. Cornwallis were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



The President announced that H.R.H. The Prince of Wales had 

 officially entered his name as an Honorary member on the Roll of the 

 Society. 



An oil portrait of Francis Masson, F.L.S., who was elected 179(3, and 

 made extensive collections of living plants in South Africa, was laid before 

 the Fellows, and offered for their acceptance by the President. The 

 announcement of this donation was received with acclamation. 



A letter was read from Mr. Benjamin T. Lowne, referring to an exhibi- 

 tion by him of photographs from microscopical specimens of the retina of 

 insects. One section represented the retinal layer detached from the 

 opticon ; other sections showed the basillar layer ; thus practically affording 

 evidence that the nerves terminate in end organs, t>jx., rods placed in groups 

 beneath the opticon, — a view promulgated by Mr. Lowne in his memoir, 

 " On the Compound Vision and the Morphology of the Eye in Insects." 

 (new ser. Zool. vol. ii. pp. 389-420). 



Mr. J. W. Waller exhibited a large block of wood, part of an oak 

 grown in Sussex. The wood having been sawn up lengthwise, it was found 

 to contain along tunnel and a large living larva of the longicorn beetle, 

 Prlonus coriarius. 



Dr. John Anderson communicated a paper by the Rev. Thomas 

 Hincks, viz. : — " Report on Hydroida and Polyzoa from the Mergui 



