XX. PROCEEDINGS LIVERPOOL BIOLUGICAL SOCIETY. 
South of England in which a number of flies were 
found to be hibernating. 
3. Mr. Paden reported that a Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) 
had been stranded near West Kirby, in the Dee 
Estuary. 
4. Mr. W. S. Henderson exhibited with remarks, some 
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marine specimens collected by himself at the Canary 
Islands, and Mr. R. J. Harvey Gibson described 
some of the Algze. 
. R. J. Harvey Gibson brought forward a proposal 
that the Cryptogamic Flora of the Liverpool Dis- 
trict should be worked up, and invited the cooper- 
ation of other Botanists in the Society. The 
proposal was favourably received, and remarks and 
suggestions were made by Messrs. Narramore, 
Birks and others. 
Hurst read a note ‘‘on the wings of Archaeopterya 
and of recent birds,” as follows :— 
It is customary to regard the three easily-recog- 
nisable digits in a recent bird’s wing as representing 
the first, second and third digits of the typical 
pentadactylous hand, though some writers regard 
them as representing the second, third and fourth. 
In the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx (of 
which a photograph was exhibited) three free digits 
are seen and these are—it was considered—obviously 
fitted for cimbing but far too slender to support a 
wing of such size as that seen in the same specimen. 
It was pointed out that the Dames’s figure which 
is reproduced in several modern textbooks is inac- 
curate as to the position of the feathers of the wing, 
the terminal feathers making a smaller angle with 
the digits in his figure than in the actual specimen. 
Hence the conclusion that the bones which really 
