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year's bird. Weight, 1 lb. 10£ oz. Length, 22$ id. Wiug, 16± in. 

 Sex (by dissection), male. The stomach contained remains of a small fish. 

 Glaucous Gulls can hardly be called rare along this coast, almost every 

 winter bringing reports of birds seen or killed, most of the specimens being 

 immature birds; but the Iceland Gull is undoubtedly much less frequently 

 met with, and probably most of the notices of Iceland Gulls seen, and not 

 killed, would be more correctly referred to L. glaucus. I am not aware 

 that an Iceland Gull has been killed on any part of our sea-board recently, 

 and I only know of one other previously obtained on Thorpe-mere. — F. 

 Menteith Ogilvie (Sizewell, Leiston, Suffolk). 



Black Redstart in Lancashire. — On Oct. 25th last I came across a 

 Black Redstart, Ruticilla tithys, on the shingle above high-water mark 

 between Lytham and St. Anne's-on-the-Sea. It flew only a few yards, so 

 I put it up again, — in fact, four times in all. When flying, the red on the 

 lower part of the back and tail, and the white patches on the wings, were 

 very conspicuous. — F. Brownsword (St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire). 



Puffin Inland in Notts. — A propos to ray notes, in the last volume of 

 1 The Zoologist,' on the occurrences of the Little Auk and Manx Shear- 

 water in Notts, I may state that a Puffin, Fratercula arctica, was obtained 

 at Bottamsall, in this county, in the autumn of 1889. — L. Buttress 

 (Grove, near Retford, Notts). 



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Linnean Society of London. 



Jan. 21, 1892. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



Messrs. B. J. Austin, Stanley Edwards, and F. Turner were elected 

 Fellows of the Society, and Mr. T. J. Moore, of Liverpool, an Associate. 



On a motion by the President, it was unanimously resolved that an 

 expression of respectful sympathy should be conveyed to Her Majesty the 

 Queen, and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, on the loss sustained by the 

 death of H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence and Avoudale. 



Mr. M. F. Woodward exhibited microscopic sections illustrating the 

 development of the teeth in the Marsupialia. He drew attention to Prof. 

 Kukenthal's recent discovery of supposed rudimentary successors in all 

 the teeth, thus showing that the adult set of teeth must be regarded as 

 belonging to the first or milk series, and not, as generally supposed, to the 

 second or successional dentition. These statements he was able to confirm 

 for the incisors and second upper molar of Didelphys. In the Phalanger 

 {Trichosaurus) he found no trace of these structures in connection with the 



