PROVISIONAL. REPORTS AND NOTICES. 331 



Report of the Committee on Marine Zoology. 



They have expended in dredging on the coast of the county of Antrim the 

 sum of 255., but were obliged, by the tempestuous state of the weather and 

 other causes, to suspend further operations. They recommend that a re- 

 newal of the grant of 50/. be applied for. 



Robert Patterson, 

 * R. Ball. 



Notices of progress have been received in regard to the Report on Capri' 

 mulgidce, by Mr. Gould ; on Ornithology, by Mr, Selby ; om Radiata, by 

 Sir J. G. Dalyell. 



Sir W. Jardine reported that the inquiry formerly entrusted to him regard- 

 ing the Sahnonidce of Scotland is still in progress. 



Sir W. Jardine, on behalf of the Committee appointed to take steps for in- 

 creasing our knowledge of the Anoplura Britanni(B, reported that by the 

 encouragement afforded by the Committee to Mr. Denny, who has been long 

 and diligently engaged in this branch of Natural History, that gentleman has 

 been enabled to make arrangements for the speedy publication of a work on 

 the subject, illustrated with coloured plates, twenty-one of which have been 

 submitted to the inspection of the Committee. 



Dr. Buckland, on behalf of a Committee who were instructed to take steps 

 for augmenting our knowledge of the fossil fishes of the Old Red Sandstone 

 of Great Britain, states, that owing to the severe illness of M. Agassiz, whose 

 assistance the Committee had secured, no report can at present be drawn up. 



Dr. Buckland, on behalf of a Committee appointed to procure coloured 

 drawings of the Sections of Strata exposed in Railway excavations, made the 

 following statement. 



"July 13, 1S41. 



" I have to report that a plate has been engraved from a pattern Section 

 prepared by Mr. Phillips, and that several hundred impressions from this 

 plate have been circulated among Civil Engineers, who have kindly promised 

 to assist in procuring the information we wish to obtain ; but that the only 

 Sections yet received have been prepared by W. Sanders, Esq. from the 

 Great Western Railroad near Bristol ; and Mr. Craig, of the Glasgow and 

 Ayr, and Glasgow and Greenock Railways." 



