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NOTES AND NEWS. 



When descending seawards, it would appear that the salmon 

 usually pass gradually into the salt water, but a heavy flood some- 

 times carries weak fish down stream. The pinks or smolts keep to 

 the sides of the river, but having once arrived at the ocean would 

 seem to seek the deep water, to return again as breeding grilse. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Dallinger, F.R.S., has been elected president of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society for a third time, the bye-law providing that a Fellow should not be elected 

 for more than two years being set aside by a special vote. 



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The annual meeting of the Manchester Scientific Students' Association was 

 held on the 20th of January. The 25th annual report stated that the work of the 

 past year embraced fourteen winter evening meetings, at which papers were read 

 and discussed ; nine Saturday afternoon excursions ; one whole day excursion ; an 

 excursion at Whitsuntide ; six evening rambles ; and four visits to institutions and 

 works. The number of members on the roll for 1885 is 297. The council invited 

 the attention of the members to an important feature in its organisation. The pro- 

 posed creation of an astronomical section will, it is hoped, lead the way to the 

 formation of other sections for the study of those branches of science which still 

 remain unrepresented in this great industrial centre. The library was removed 

 during the autumn from Bridge Street to the space set apart for it on the basement 

 floor of the rooms of the Literaiy and Scientific Society. The, year started with a 

 favourable balance of ^26, and ended with a balance of £11 7s. 3d. The officers 

 and members of the Council were elected for the coming year. Prof. Williamson, 

 F.R.S., is again the president; Messrs. Alfred Brothers, R. T. Burnett, Samuel 

 Okell, and John Plant are the vice-presidents ; Dr. C. P. Bahin, honorary secretary; 

 Mr. Samuel Massey, treasurer. 



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An open meeting of the Microscopical and Natural History Section of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, was held on the 7th of 

 December, 1885, when Prof. Herdman, of University College, Liverpool, delivered 

 an address, in which he described the results of the work undertaken by the Liver- 

 pool Marine Biology Committee. A large number of exhibits were made by 

 members and associates, including Messrs. R. D. Darbishire (marine and land and 

 freshwater shells, and in conjunction with L. E. Adams, characteristic British 

 Stalk-eyed Crustacea, mainly from Penmaenmaur and the Irish Sea), Dr. x\lcock, 

 F. Nicholson, F.Z.S., Thomas Rogers, H. Hyde, Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., Prof. 

 Williamson, F.R.S., Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, F.R S., Prof. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 

 J. R. Hardy, Peter Cameron, J. Cosmo Melvill, F.L.S. (a most extensive series 

 of exhibits, viz.: — Selected Foreign Mollusca from his collection, including 

 29 original types of Conus, 19 of them being unique specimens, and fine rare and 

 unique forms of Voluta, Mitra, Marginella, Cyprsea, Bullia, Pseudoliva, Rostellaria, 

 Murex, an almost complete set of the genus Typhis, a selection of the genus 

 Pecten, etc. ; exotic Coleoptera, of the families Cetoniadae and Rutelida? ; selected 

 drawers of exotic Rhopalocera of the orders Papilionidte, Nymphalidse, and 

 Lycaenida; ; and a few insects exhibited together to exemplify mimicry amongst 

 Lepidoptera of widely differing orders), Hastings C. Dent, F.L.S., Charles Bailey, 

 F.L.S. (numerous rare and critical plants, including the principal forms of aquatic 

 Buttercups growingin Britain, the Hieracia of Middle Europe, belonging exclusively to 

 one section, the Piloselloidea, and a set of British Erythrcea), T. Sington, F. A. Huet, 

 L.D.S.,R.C.S., J. Barrow, A. Brothers, F.R.A.S., Blackburn, F.R. M.S., John 

 Boyd, Pettigrew, Dr. Tatham, and Wilde. The gathering constituted one of the 

 most interesting meetings that has taken place in Manchester within the historic walls 

 of the Literary and Philosophical Society ; and was one to which ladies were, for 

 the first time in the annals of the Society, admitted, upon the occasion of the 

 reopening of the rooms at 36, George Street, after the very extensive alterations and 

 rebuilding there. 



1 APR 1886 Naturalist, 



