578 ' Meeting of the British Association. [Oct., 



current running up from the latitude of Madeira along the west 

 coast of Iceland, and bending eastwards towards Scandinavia. 



Dr. M'Intosh read some notes on Annelids from the Hebrides, 

 obtained by Mr. Jeffreys last year, amongst which were some new 

 and interesting forms. The same gentleman also read a paper 

 " On the Marine Fauna of St. Andrew's," which he had most 

 carefully explored. To the Annelids and Turbellarians he had 

 specially devoted his attention, and he exhibited some exquisitely 

 finished drawings of these animals, which were highly eulogized by 

 Mr. E. "W. Cooke, E.A., who was present. He had obtained 104 

 species of Annelids and Turbellarians from St. Andrew's, of which 

 several were new to Britain, and some new altogether. 



Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood had no less than five papers on 

 marine animals, which he had briefly observed in his recent voyage 

 to the Chinese seas. They were as follows : " On Pelagic Floating 

 Animals observed at Sea ; " " Notes on Oceanic Hydrozoa ; " 

 " Observations on the Habits of Flying Fish ; " ' ; On Trichodesmium, 

 or Sea-dust ; " and " On some remarkable Marine Animals observed 

 in the China Seas." These papers were chiefly interesting as 

 containing personal observations on the habits of the creatures 

 mentioned. Dr. Collingwood had a large collection of specimens 

 in spirits which he submitted to examination. 



Dr. Spencer Cobbold, in a paper "On the Entozoa of the 

 Common Fowl and of Game Birds," gave his reasons for believing 

 that the grouse disease was not in any way due to the presence of 

 Entozoa. He described the species of flat, round, and tape-worms, 

 which are to be found in these birds. His paper caused some 

 discussion, in which the Eev. H. B. Tristram and Mr. Busk agreed 

 in condemning the destruction of birds of prey by the game-keepers. 

 Falcons and hawks act as nature's police, and check the spread of 

 disease and epidemics amongst birds by killing off the weakly 

 individuals of a covey. 



Mr. C. "W. Peach, a veteran zoologist who has done very much 

 good work in dredging and exploring, read a paper " On some New 

 British Naked-eyed Medusae ; " and another " On the Fructification 

 of Grifiithsia Corallina," found by him in Shetland. 



Professor Alfred Newton read a " Supplement to the Eeport on 

 the Didine Birds of the Mascarene Islands." The grant given by 

 the British Association had been spent by Prof. Newton's brother 

 in the most satisfactory way, for he had before him almost complete 

 skeletons of the Dodo of the Island of Bodriguez, — the Solitaire. 

 When the skeleton of the Didus ineiptus of Madagascar had become 

 known such a very short time since, it was highly satisfactory to 

 obtain such complete evidence with regard to this allied species. 



