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Wednesdai/y 9th May. — T. Strethill Wright, M.D., President, 
in the Chair. 
Various Committees were appointed for conducting special investiga- 
tions during the recess. 
Mr George Logan reported that, in accordance with the remit of last 
meeting, the Committee on Marine Zoology had prepared and forwarded 
a memorial to the Lord Advocate, praying that certain exceptions be 
granted on behalf of scientific societies, from the restrictions in the pro- 
posed New Herring Fishery Bill. He stated that he had received a 
reply, mentioning that due weight would be given to the prayer of the 
memorial. 
The following donations to the Library were laid on the table, and 
thanks voted to the donors : — 
Transactions of Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXH., Part I., 4to; 
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1858-59, 8vo. — From 
the Society. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1859. 
Part III. July to December. — From the Society. Board of Science, 
Second Annual Report (Gold Fields), 1859-60, Victoria ; presented to 
both Houses of Parliament by his E xcellency's command. — From David 
Page, Esq. De la Formation et de la Fecondation des (Eufs chez les 
Vers Nematodes. Par Edouard Claparede. Geneve, 1859, 4to. — Zur 
Morphologic der Zusammengesetzten Augen bei den Arthropoden, Von 
Dr Edouard Claparede in Genf. — From the Author. 
The following Communications were read : — 
I. Observations on British Zoophytes. By T. Strethill Wright, M.D. 
On Halcampa Fultoni (Strethill Wright), a parasitic Actinia. 
The author stated that, in the summer of 1858, he toot, by dipping, a 
great number of Medusae of the genus Thaumantias, off Granton Pier. 
To the peduncle of one of these was attached small Actinia, about half 
an inch in length, and one-eighth of an inch in diameter. From its 
general appearance, he considered it to be a young specimen of Actinia 
troglodytes, which had been seized by the Medusa, dragged from its 
native mud, and brought captive to the surface of the water ; but it was 
unfortunately lost before he could examine it carefully. In June, his friend, 
Mr Fulton of Granton Pier, brought him some specimens of Thauman- 
tias, to one of which another Actinia, of the same species as the one he 
had before observed, had attached itself by swallowing the peduncle of 
the medusa. The body of this Actinia was of a transparent, yellowish- 
white colour, and marked by twelve paler lines, indicating the situation 
of the longitudinal septa within. The oral disc was oval, and formed by 
