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FISHES. 



Scorpcena dactyloptera at Lowestoft.— I am indebted to Mr. A. 

 Patterson for the opportunity of examining a second specimen of this fish, 

 which was taken off Lowestoft on Dec. 10th, 1895. It was eight inches 

 in length, the former example, captured off Yarmouth on April 29th, 1894, 

 as reported in ' The Zoologist,' 1894, p. 430, measured 5f inches only. — 

 Thomas Southwell (Norwich). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



January IQth, 1896. — Mr. C. B. Clakke, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Messrs. 0. V. Aplin and William Cole were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



On behalf of Mr. G. H. Adcock, F.L.S., of Geelong, Victoria, Mr. A. B. 

 Rendle, F.L.S., exhibited and made remarks upon some photographs of 

 Hakea grammatophylla, F. Muell., a little-known species of the Proteaceae, 

 of local distribution in South Australia. 



Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot exhibited specimens of bark-cloth from Uganda, 

 and the shores of Lake Tanganika, and gave an account of the mode of its 

 preparation from the bark-cloth fig, and of the fleshy Euphorbias and Acacias 

 of British East Africa, illustrating his remarks with lantern-slides from 

 photographs taken by himself. Mr. Elliot remarked that the native cloth 

 manufactured on the shores of the Tanganika was made on the same sort 

 of rough loom which he had seen employed near Sierra Leone, and as the 

 Tanganika is, ethnologically and botanically, part of the west coast, that it was 

 interesting to find that the methods employed in countries so far apart were 

 so similar in detail. A discussion followed in which Messrs. Rendle, 

 E. M. Holmes, T. Christy, and W. Carruthers took part. 



On behalf of Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Mr. Harting exhibited some 

 land-shells, and eggs and skins of two rare Petrels from the Salvage Islands, 

 lying between the Canaries and Madeira. These islands were stated to be 

 of volcanic origin, faced with steep rocks from 100 ft. to 300 ft. in height, 

 and covered with loose sandy soil, the vegetation consisting chiefly of the 

 wild tomato, Lycopersicum esculentum, the ice-plant, Mesembryanthemum 

 crystallinum, Asparagus scoparius, and Cistanche lutea. Amongst the shells 

 collected were Helix ustulata (peculiar to the Salvage Islands), H. pisana, 

 H. macandrewi, H. polymorpha, Rumina decollata, Littorina striata, 



