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ojB&ce-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 anassthetics 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. Atractjlis arenosa, 2. 
Atractylis miniata. 3. Laomedia decipiens. Bj 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 
