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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



V. Note of the Onuphis tubicola found near Wick. By Charles W. 

 Peach, Esq. 



I am not aware whether the Onuphis tubicola has been 

 noticed as occurring in Scotland. It has been found in Ire- 

 land, and I got it rather plentiful in Cornwall. It forms a 

 quill-like tube, which it fixes in the sand. I got one the be- 

 ginning of this month from a fishing-boat belonging to this 

 place. The animal was not in the tube, and although the 

 tube is injured, there is sufficient left to identify it. The 

 animal is described and figured in the " Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History" (vol. xvi. page 6, 1845), in a paper by 

 Dr George Johnston of Berwick, fifteen years ago. I supplied 

 him with specimens, and when I lived in Cornwall, I kept 

 some alive for more than a year.* 



Wednesday 2oth April I860 — William Rhind, Esq., President, in 



the Chair. 



The following donations to the library were laid on the table, and 

 thanks voted to the donors : — Observations on the Free-Labour Cotton 

 of Honduras, &c. With coloured plate of the plant. By Mr James 

 Banks, Prestonpans. — From the author. Lecture on the Geology of the 

 Province of Nelson, New Zealand. By Dr F. Hochstetter, of the 

 Austrian Scientific Novara Expedition. — From the Colonial Secretary, 

 Auckland, New Zealand. Memoir on the Extinct Sloth Tribe of North 

 America. By Joseph Leidy, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, University of 

 Pennsylania. — From the author. Report of the Board of Agriculture of 

 the State of Ohio, for the year 1856, Vol. II. From the Ohio State 

 Agricultural Society, through the Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A. 



Mr George Logan made some remarks on the Lord Advo- 

 cate's proposed New Herring Fishery Bill ; and moved that 

 the subject be remitted to the Committee on Marine Zoology, 

 with powers to memorialize the Lord Advocate, or other parties, 

 as may seem to it best, in order that some exemption might 

 be made for the trawl or seine nets, when used solely for 

 scientific purposes, from the restrictions and prohibitions pro- 

 posed in the bill. After some remarks by Mr J. M. Mitchell, 

 the motion was unanimously agreed to. 



* Since this paper was read I have found a much finer and better px^eserved 

 one at Wick. 



