
380 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
a and the East India Marine Society, and the Director of the 
rrange- 
kun iem the Hall and cases, and of the arrangement of the different 
classes of specimens both on the floor and in did galleries. The repo 
of the proceedings of the trustees is followed by a report of the Council, 
containing reports of the Director and Curators ,With an appendix, en- 
titled **List of Hymenopterous and Lepideptarous Insects collected by 
the Smithsonian Expedition to South America, under Prof. James Orton, 
by A. S. Packard, jr.” The Formicide enumerated are named by Mr. 
Edward Norton. Mr. E. S. Morse, in the appendix to his report on the 
ee of the Mollusca, describes Actinobolus (Cyclocardia) Novanglie 
n Es county shell, which he separates from Cardita borealis, d 
uence the difference. by wood cuts. There is also appended a report 
r. J. A. McNiel on his expedition to Central America, and the Direc- 
Council are recorde "Hà 



66h at in Tahalliz xd df Sigh we spe ecific n 
bien derived from prop 1 initial letters, and also, that ps 
e rule shall obtain in the ofl p T of the Aca "a TIEN o further voted, 
"that in labellin, name of the person who first united ‘the geniert and por 

cific appellations shall be e give 
original describer of the pedo Pag a it shall | be in parenthesis.” 

NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
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‘ BOTANY. 
FLOWERING OF Posoquerta.—In the October number of the NATU- 
RALIST (1868), was given on page 437, and following, an account of the 
phenomena displayed in flowering by a species of Posoqueria in the 
ic Gard 
n 
hibited by a species of the same genus as witnessed and described by 
Mr. Fritz Müller, in the island of Santa Catarina on the Coast of Brazil. 
I inda RES eoe "e nm ate still, that we had the same plant in view- 
ghtest fference can be discovered between our plant 
and the figures of his. I ktd ai, it is true, because my ex- 
periments had not been so numerous as his, and because I had made & 

fait. y 
tickled the upper fllaments at the curvature without the least effect, eX- 
| one. ^ when the anther mass burst asunder during the 
PN ipit iam. been near the time when they explode in 




