478 Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



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On the Middle and Upper Lias of the South- West of 

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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. — Dec. 4. 

 Robert Etheridge, Esq., in the chair. 



Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Esq., read a paper on the Graptolites 

 of the Skiddaw series, premising that the slates of that series 

 corresponded with the Quebec group of Canada. He described 

 twenty-four species. 



P. Martin Duncan, Esq., M.D., described in a concluding paper 

 the Eossil Corals of the West Indies. Dr. Duncan mentioned 

 several curious facts in the distribution of West Indian corals, both 

 fossil and recent, and especially the circumstance that, whilst 

 Jamaica, San Domingo, and Guadaloupe present solitary species, 

 mixed with those inhabiting shallow water or a reef, Antigua 

 and Trinidad offer for consideration only reef species. In conclu- 

 sion, the author drew attention to the confirmation by subsequent 

 discoveries of his theory of an Atlantic Archipelago, which he had 

 put forward in his earlier papers. 



ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.— Dec. 12. 

 James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. 



C. Stewart, Esq., read a paper describing the pedicellaria? of the 

 Cidaridas. In the discussion which ensued, Mr. Jabez Hogg stated 

 that he had seen pedicellariaj in certain star-fish pass fragments of 

 food from one to another towards the mouth. A Fellow remarked 

 that Agassiz had noticed their removal of fa?cal matter from the 

 neighbourhood of the anus. Mr. Stewart said that although such 



