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A vote of thanks passed to the chairman, on the motion of 
Messrs. John H. Phillips and W. W. Reeves, terminated the 
shortly afterwards the members proceeded to the railway platform, and 
waited! waited !! waited!!!—5 minutes! 10 minutes!! 15 minutes!!! 
still no train—grave apprehensions were expressed about making the 
various connections at Scarborough; 20 minutes! 40 minutes!! all 
hope had now fled. Five minutes later the train came puffing into 
the station, and speculation was rife as to whether the station- 
master’s telegraphic request would be the means of detaining the 
Leeds train, but it was a vain hope. On arriving at Scarborough it was 
found that the train had gone ! and about thirty persons were stranded 
for the night. The station-master was besieged en masse, and the 
poor fellow sent telegrams here and telegrams there, until, having 
exhausted their benedictions on the railway company, the enraged 
party departed, like a swarm of bees, to seek accommodation for 
the night. Let us hope that on Sunday morning they rose from 
their couches with thoughts better suited to the day.—E.R.W 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Here is a ‘ fine specimen’ of newspaper botany, for which we sri boa srieg to 
Mr. Win Ww hitwell, who copied it verbatim from the ‘Glasgow Eve Ne 
“ALPINE PLANTS ON THE CAmMpsiE HILLs.—A fine specimen of a Alpine 
plant con Fr gocher was recently found growing on the wae of a one 
of the spurs of the Campsie Range. The flower is of a appearance, and 
pure whtie,, he gear ig of this plant on the gro of fe ‘West of peor is 
a salen Mr. Whitwell adds that: ‘ Gussie Parnassium’ decidedly ‘ caps ” 
the ‘grass upon nasus’ quoted by Mr. F. Arnold Lees as a name for Farnassia 
palustris, on a‘ 251 of the ‘ Flora of West Yorkshire. 
RECENT VIEWS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF 
THE PECTORAL FINS IN FISHES. 
The Development and Morphology of the Pectoral Fins in Teleostean 
Fishes: A Contribution to the Theory of the Paired Limbs in 
Vertebrates. An Inaugural Dissertation by EDWARD E. PRINCE, Professor 
of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in St. Mungo’s College, Glasgow, 1 
Prof. Prince’s name will be familiar to many readers of this 
journal. At one time a zealous Yorkshire zoologist, and for some 
years engaged in investigations connected with the Scottish F isheries, 
he was appointed to a scientific chair in Glasgow about a year 
The address which he gave on his induction has been published in 
ato to form, 24 pp. with two plates. It is upon the breast ~ of bony 
oe 1891, 
