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Perrot, a dealer in Paris, had this egg for sale ; whereupon, on his way 

 home through Paris, he purchased it for 200 francs (£8). This statement 

 is confirmed by a letter from Sir William Milner himself, written before 

 1860 (presumably in 1859), aud printed by Mr. Grieve in his quarto 

 volume on the Great Auk (p. 105), with the not very material variation that 

 the writer was in Dusseldorf when he first heard of this egg, not at Heidel- 

 berg, as Mr. Champley misunderstood him to state. It has now once 

 more changed hands, having been sold on April 23rd for 180 guineas to the 

 proprietor of ' The Edinburgh Castle ' in the Mornington Road, London, 

 not the most fitting shrine that could be desired for such an ornithological 

 treasure. 



FISHES. 



Boar-fish at Teignmouth. — On April 9th a specimen of the Boar-fish, 

 Capros apor, was sent to me for identification from Teignmouth, S. Devon, 

 where this fish had suddenly appeared in large numbers. It was prior to 

 1844 considered a great rarity in British waters, but a Penzance trawler, in 

 July of that year, found them plentifully near the Runnel Stone, close to 

 Land's End, and they are usually to be obtained just there. The specimen 

 before me measures about 6£ in. in length, and the curiously-hinged snout 

 is capable of extension to the extent of an inch and a half. — E. Augustus 

 Bowles (Myddelton House, Waltham Cross, Herts). 



[Attains a length of seven inches, and is called " Boar-fish " from the 

 shape of the snout, which is capable of being greatly protruded. Small 

 mollusca and Crustacea have been found in the stomachs of those examined. 

 First noticed as a British fish in 1825, when a specimen was captured in 

 Mount's Bay. In 1833 some were taken at Bridgewater ; in 1836, one at 

 Teignmouth ; and in March, 1842, one caught at Brighton was considered 

 of sufficient rarity to be forwarded to Her Majesty the Queen. Since 

 July, 1844, when about 200 were taken in a trawl off the Runnel Stone, it 

 has been met with on various parts of the coast of Devon and Cornwall, and 

 is now reported to be locally common between March and October. — Ed.] 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



April ith, 1895. — Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Graf zu Solms Laubach, and Messrs. C. A. Barber, S. T. Dunn, J. D. 

 Haviland, and A. P. Young were admitted, and the Rev. A. Thornley, 

 J. W. Carr, and W. H. Wilson Elliott were elected Fellows. 



On behalf of Mr. W. B. Hemsley, Dr. O. Stapf exhibited some new 

 plants from the Solomon Islands, collected by the Rev, R, B. Comins. 



