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it was the smaller and more graceful of the two species of 

 lizard found in Great Britain. It was common in this 

 country, and chiefly found in dry sunny banks, thickets and 

 copses. It was not so abundant on the Continent, but was 

 found in France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, frequenting 

 the pine woods in the latter country. Its motions were 

 singularly varied and agile, and it darted on its insect prey 

 with the velocity of an arrow, its sight as well as its hearing 

 being most acute. The only other species in this country 

 was known as the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis, L.) 



Mr. Billups also called attention to a branch of the 

 Stinking Hellebore (Helleborus fcetidus, L.), which he had 

 found growing the previous week in Headley Lane, Surrey, 

 and he remarked that it belonged to the order Ranunculacce, 

 or Crow Foot Family, and was known in many places as the 

 Bear's-foot, Ox-heel, or Setter-wort. The plants of this 

 order were distributed over the whole surface of the globe, 

 and were all of them more or less poisonous, but the Hellebore 

 appeared to possess the most powerfully poisonous properties 

 of the whole family. The only other species found in this 

 country was the green Hellebore (H. viridis, L.). 



Mr. J. A. Cooper exhibited eggs of the following British 

 birds : the Sparrow Hawk {Accipiter nisus, L.), the Water 

 Hen {Gallinula ckloropus, L.), and the Coot (Fulica atra, L.) 



Mr. W. West, of Streatham, contributed a paper on 

 " The Entozoa or Internal Parasites." 



Mr. West began his paper by referring to the ancient 

 records of the Entozoa, or internal animal parasites, and then 

 passed on to the classification of the species. 



The class Entozoa or Helmintha is divided into three 

 sub-classes, viz., the Sterelmintha, Coslelmintha, and Anenterel- 

 mintha, which are again divided into five orders, viz., Tur- 

 bel/aria, Trematoda, Nematoda, Acanthocephala, and Cestoda. 

 These orders are further divided into nineteen families, and 



