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New British Ferns. 

 Mr. Newman, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of two species of ferns found in Scot- 

 land, and not hitherto noticed as belonging to the British Flora: one of which (the 

 Polypodium rhgeticum of the 'Flore Franchise,' but not of Linneus) he believes to be 

 the Polypodium alpestre of Hoppe; the other he considers to be new, and proposed 

 to call it P. flexile. 



June 7, 1853. — Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Election of a Fellow. 

 The Rev. Thomas Hugo, M.A., was elected a Fellow. 



Nomination of Vice-Presidents. 

 The President nominated Robert Brown, Esq., William Yarrell, Esq., Nathaniel 

 Wallich, Esq., M.D., and William Spence, Esq., to be Vice-Presidents for the ensu- 

 ing year. 



Specimen of the Dusky Petrel. 

 Mr. Yarrell, V.P.L.S., exhibited a specimen of the dusky petrel (Puffinus obscurus 

 of modern authors). See Zool. 3947 for a paper by Mr. Yarrell on this bird. 



Volume of Letters to Philip Miller. 

 Mr. Westwood, F.L.S., exhibited a volume of letters addressed to Philip Miller by 

 Linnaeus and various other naturalists and others, the property of Mr. Edward Lay- 

 ton, of Watford ; the more interesting of which will shortly be published in fac simile. 



Umbellate Variety of Primula vulgaris. 

 Mr. Hogg, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of an umbellate variety of the common 

 primrose (Primula vulgaris, var. #. of Smith's ( English Flora ') gathered in Thorp 

 Wood, near Stockton-upon-Tees, on the 12th of May in the present year. 



Artificial Breeding of Salmon. 

 Read, some " Notes on the Artificial Breeding of Salmon and Trout, with Re- 

 marks on the Modes of Fecundating their Ova." By John Hogg, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., &c. After referring to his notice of the artificial breeding of salmon, as prac- 

 tised by Mr. Isaac Fisher, read before the Society on the 4th of May last, and of 

 which an abstract is given in the * Proceedings,' p. 178 (printed in Zool. 3758), Mr. 

 Hogg gave an account of some further experiments by the same gentleman in the 

 River Swale, made with considerable success, during the past winter and spring. A 

 letter on this subject from Mr. Fisher appeared in the York Herald, dated May 3rd, 

 1853, from which we learn that ova, placed by him on the 25th of December last in 

 a wooden box with gravel at the bottom, and through which the stream was continu- 

 ously flowing, had nearly all produced young salmon by about the middle of April. 

 Some experiments made about the same time by the late Earl of Tyrconnell, foiled of 

 success from want of attention to the locale. Attempts were also made by Henry 

 Coxe, Esq., of Scruton Hall, and Major Wade, of Hanxwell Hall, to breed artificially 

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