Exhibition of Dr divings by Native Artists in India. 349 



office-bearers, — a young naturalist whose talents and ex- 

 tensive acquirements had given promise of much usefulness. 

 Dr Coldstream said, that long and intimate acquaintance- 

 ship with the deceased enabled him to bear testimony to the 

 thoroughness of his habits as a student ; to his carefulness 

 in research ; to his probity and moral worth. Of his 

 capacity for acute generalisation, the Society had been 

 favoured with a striking proof in the able paper "On the 

 State of our Knowledge respecting Metamorphism in the 

 Mineral Kingdom," which he read in March last. This, 

 along with a memoir on the effects of anaesthetics on plants, 

 made Mr Livingston's talents widely known, and led him 

 into extensive correspondence with men of science. His 

 modesty and courtesy of manner were as remarkable as his 

 acquirements, and endeared him to a large circle of attached 

 friends. Dr Coldstream then submitted for the inspection 

 of the members a large collection of drawings in water 

 colours, of various Indian animals, chiefly insects, which had 

 been made at the instance of "Walter Elliot, Esq., lately a 

 member of the Supreme Council of Madras. These remark- 

 ably beautiful drawings were executed by native artists, 

 under the eye of Mr Elliot. The accuracy and elegance of 

 the drawings were much admired, and a hope was expressed 

 that many other residents in India would avail themselves, 

 as Mr Elliot had so successfully done, of the talents of the 

 natives, to extend our knowledge of the beautiful produc- 

 tions of our eastern empire. 



II. Observations on British Zoophytes. 1. Atractylis arenosa. 2. 



Atractylis miniata. 3. Laomedia decipiens. By T. Strethill 



Wright, M.D. (Plate XV.) 



1. Atractylis arenosa. 



This zoophyte was described by Mr Alder at the last 

 meeting of the Society. In September last I found a large 

 female specimen at Largo, and was fortunate enough to 

 have an opportunity of studying its anatomy and repro- 

 duction. The polyp-stems are, as Mr Alder has shown, 

 funnel-shaped and expanding at the top. From them the 

 milk-white polyps issue, each furnished with an alternat- 

 ing row of long tentacles. The scleroderm, or corallum, is 



