6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [June, 1859. 



Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalist's Club. Vol. IV. 

 No. 11. 



Reply to the "Statement of the Trustees" of the Dudley 

 Observatory, by Benj. Althorp Grould, in 1859. 8vo. 



Bibliographia LibrorumEntomologicorum in America Boreali 

 editorum, G-uil. Sharswood. 



Contractiones Titulorum Operum citatorum in Bibliographia, 

 Guil. Sharswood. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 

 VII. Nos. 26 and 27. From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, 

 April, 1859. From the Society. 



Synopsis of the Genera of Gammaracea. James D. Dana. 

 Presented hy Prof. L. R. Grihhes. 



Conspectus Crustaceorum. J.D.Dana. Presented hy Prof . 

 Lewis R. Gribbes. 



JUNE 15th, 1859. 



Vice-President W. Wragg Smith in the chair. 



A letter was recieved from Wm. Sharswood, Esq. requesting 

 six copies of the last issue of the Society's Journal and one of 

 the 3rd No. for distribution, also six copies of the Constitution. 

 Ordered to be furnished. 



Frof. McCrady made some remarks on Liriopsis scutigera. Also reported 

 having found the embryo of a Ctenophorous Medusa (supposed to be Beroe 

 punctata,) younger than any heretofore observed, being still surrounded with 

 the transparent membrane or cell wall of the ovum, though already provided 

 with ciliary blades near the sense-capsule, and revolving by their means 

 within its prison. This shows that the strictly Ctenophoran type is assumed 

 by the embryo before if is hatched from the egg, and there is no room left for 

 doubt that the embryo passes directly from the polyp-stage into that of the 

 C tenophora without passing through the form of the Discophora. 



Prof. McCrady also detailed some additional facts in regard to the train of 

 rhysalia aurigera."^ 



* The records of these facts were destroj'ccl by Gen. Shcrmau iu Columbia, S. C. 



