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An Account of the Attempts to Transport Salmon to Australia. 
By T. Jounson. 
The = apg employed in the different attempts to carry out the ova and fry 
were exhibited. The author showed specimens of fry hatched from ova which had 
been buried for ninety days in the Wenham Lake Ice Company’s Wells. In the 
same vessel were placed for comparison fish from the same ova, but which have 
been hatched in the ordinary way: these were considerably larger than those pro- 
duced from the preserved ova. 
Note on some Foraminifera dredged by the late Mr. Lucas Barrett at Jamaica. 
By Professor T, Rurrerr Jonus, F.G.S., and W. K. Parker. 
Of these specimens (evidently only the larger and more conspicuous members of 
a rich Rhizopodal fauna), some were taken at from fifteen to twenty fathoms, 
namely, Quingueloculina agglutinans, Q. pulchella, Orbiculina compressa, and O. 
adunca; some at from 50 to 100 fathoms, namely, Orbiculina compressa, Dentalina 
acicula, and Orbitolina vesicularis; and several others at from 100 to 200 fathoms, 
namely, Dentalina acicula, D. communis, Cristellaria rotulata, C. cultrata, C. calcar, 
Frondicularia complanata, Amphistegina vulgaris, Polytrema miniacea, Bigenerina 
nodosaria, Vernewlina tricarinata, Textularia trochus, T, Barrettii, Cuneolina pavo- 
nia, Lituola scorpiurus, and L. Soldanit. 
Cuneolina, a rare form, hitherto known only by figures and descriptions given by 
D’Orbigny, proves (as suspected) to be a modification of Textularia; and T. Bar- 
rettii is intermediate between it and Textularia proper. The Frondicularte are 
remarkably large and beautiful; and the Cristellarie and Dentaline are also large 
and relatively abundant. 
This fauna is almost identical with the fossil Foraminifera of the Pteropod-marl 
of Jamaica, a tertiary stratum, specimens from which were also given by the late 
Mr. Lucas Barrett in 1862 to the authors of this notice. 
Abstract of the Report of a three-wecks’ Dredging-Cruise off Scarborough. 
By J. LEcKENBY. 
The author described the nature of the ground upon the Dogger Bank, distant 
about 70 miles from land—rough gravel (northern drift) with fragments of jasper, 
greenstone-porphyry, &c., similar to those which strew the beach near Scarborough, 
and the purely littoral character of the Dogger fauna; the depth of water on the 
bank ranging from 5 to 15 fathoms, the sea often breaking over the shallower parts. 
He further described the results of dredgings in deep water in apparently lias 
mud, 40 to 50 miles from land, between the Dogger Bank and the coast. Amongst 
others of less note were obtained— 
Fusus Turtoni, Scalaria Trevelyana, 
norvegicus, Bulla Cranchu, 
P ovum, Crenella nigra (very large and fine), 
propinquus (abundant), Nucula tenuis, 
Mangelia nebula, Leda caudata (very large), 
Natica Montagui (very large andfine), | Syndosmya prismatica (very large), 
— greenlandica, Solen pellucidus, 1# in. in length, 
many of the species enumerated not having been hitherto obtained by the dredge. 
He also gave a list of species obtained within 10 miles of the shore, at a depth of 
from 20 to 25 fathoms, and enumerated the various Echinoderms that were obtained, 
and recorded the occurrence amongst the Crustacea of Pagurus cuanensis, hitherto 
only found off the Irish coast. 
On the Irruption of Syrrhaptes paradoxus. By A. Newton, F.L.S, 
These birds, which are commonly known as Pallas’s Sand-grouse, and which are- 
of Chinese origin, have made recent visits to this country, but have been rapidly 
exterminated or driven away. It appeared from the statement of the paper, that 
about 109 of these rare birds had been killed in the British Isles, of which 63 were 
shot in Norfolk and Suffolk. The author strongly condemned the unnecessary 
