76 THE 200LOG1ST, 



FISHES. 



Weight of Trout. — The following note, on account of the date of 

 capture, may be of interest. At Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, the seat of 

 H. Lee Warner, Esq., there hangs the picture of a Bull Trout, evidently 

 painted to scale, with the following inscription : — " Taken at Fordwick, in 

 Kent, in the year 1672, weigh 'd 27 Pounds. This is the representation of 

 a Trout, which was given in 1672, to Henry Lee, Esqr., of Danejon. near 

 Canterbury, for which city he was then Member of Parliament, and was 

 so in seven successive Parliaments, and in one for Hindon." — H. W. 

 Feilden. 



insects. 



Sirex gigas and Colias edusa in Holderness.— A specimen of Sirex 

 gigas was given to me one day at the end of last July. Probably to be 

 accounted for by the Hull timber-yards. Colias edusa was very plentiful 

 in South Holderness. I saw as many as twenty-five in a day. Two 

 examples of var. helice were seen, and one captured. — H. H. Slater. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



General Meeting, Jan. 19, 1893. — Prof. Charles Stewart, President, 

 in the chair. 



After the confirmation of the minutes, the President referred in suitable 

 terms to the losses sustained by biological science in the deaths of 

 Sir Richard Owen and Prof. J. 0. Westvvood, who had been Fellows of the 

 Society for fifty-six and sixty-four years respectively. 



Mr. George Brook showed photographs of Corals which he had lately 

 taken, and had reproduced by permanent-process at a cost below lithography, 

 with the added advantage of permitting amplification by a hand lens. 



The President read a paper on the auditory organ of the Angel Fish, 

 Rhina squatina. 



Mr. W. Carruthers then laid before the Society the results of a collection 

 made by Mr. Alexander Whyte in the Malanji country, in the Shire High- 

 land?, in October, 1891, and the plants were determined by the officers 

 of the Botanical Department, British Museum, about sixty — or roughly 

 bpeaking one-fifth — proving new to science. Whilst Sir J. D. Hooker 

 defined the flora of Kilimanjaro as Abyssinian in character, the Malanji 

 flora displays a much closer relationship to the Cape. 



