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Mr. E. Moore's Account of the Strata penetrated in sinking an Artesian Well at 



the Victoria Spa, Plymouth 63 



Rev. Dr. Buckland's Notice of a series of Specimens from Mr. Johnson's 



Granite Quarries, near Prince Town, Dartmoor 64 



Mr. Boswarra's Notice of the Heave of a Copper Lode 64 



Mr. John Phillips on the Occurrence of some minute Fossil Crustaceans in 



Palaeozoic Rocks 64 



Mr. H. E. Strickland on the genus Cardinia, Agassiz, as characteristic of the 



Lias Formation .' 63 



Mr. W. Walker on the Geological Changes produced by the Saxicava rugosa in 



Plymouth Sound 66 



Mr. William Sanders's Notice of Sections of the Railway between Bristol and 



Bath, a distance of twelve miles, prepared by direction of a Committee of the 



British Association 67 



Mr. John Craig's Notice of Sections of the Railways between Glasgow and 



Greenock, and Greenock and Ayr, prepared by direction of a Committee of 



the British Association 67 



Mr. T. B. Jordan's Letter 'On Copying Fossils by a Galvanic Deposit' 67 



Rev. Dr. Buckland's Notice of Models for Illustration of the Succession and 



Dislocations of Strata, Mineral Veins, &c., constructed by T. Sopwith, F.G.S. 67 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. 



Mr. Jonathan Couch on the Zoology of the County of Cornwall 68 



Mr. J. C. Bellamy on the Distribution, &c. of the Mammals of Devonshire... 68 

 Mr. John Edward Gray on the Geographical Distribution of the Animals of 



New Holland 68 



• on a New Glirine Animal from Mexico 70 



Professor Owen's Account of a Thylacinus, the great Dog-headed Opossum, 



one of the rarest and largest of the Marsupiate family of Animals 70 



Mr. J. Richardson's Notices and Drawings of three new Genera of Marine - 



Fishes from Van Diemen's Land 71 



Captain Widdrington on the Habits of the Eel, and on the Freshwater Fish 



of Austria 71 



Mr. E. Forbes on two remarkable Marine Invertebrata inhabiting the .lEgean 



Sea 72 



Mr. E. Lankester on Deposits in Springs, Rivers, and Lakes, from the exist- 

 ence of Infusoria 72 



Professor Henslow on Cecidomyia Tritici 72 



Colonel Hamilton Smith on the Colossal SepiadeB 73 



M. Edm. de Selys Longchamps' Projet d'observations annuelles sur la Pe- 



riodicite des Oiseaux 73 



Mr. P. F. Bellamy's Description of two Peruvian Mummies, presented to the 



Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society by Captain Blanckley, of the 

 * Royal Navy 75 



