162 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
V. Note of the Onuphis tubicola /own(i near Wick. By Charles W. 
Peach, Esq. 
I am not aware whether the Onuphis tuhicola 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 2bth April 186Q — William Rhind, Esq., President, in 
tlie 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. I^ecture 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 preserved 
one at Wick. 
