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MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
February 25th, 1867. 
A. G. Latham, Esq., President of the Section, in the Chair. 
Mr. Coward exhibited specimens of Calluna vulgaris 
from Newfoundland, with the following memorandum, in 
the handwriting of the late Robert Brown, on a ticket 
attached : “ Erica vulgaris Linn, at the head of Trepassey 
and St. Mary’s Bay on the south-east coast of Newfound- 
land, covering considerable tracts. Mr. Me. Cormack re- 
ceived from Mr. George Don, June 3rd, 1830. In the 
collection were three specimens, none of them in fructifi- 
cation.— R. B.” 
Dr. Seemann {Jour. Bot., Oct., 1866) thinks the New- 
foundland Heath may prove to be a distinct species, but 
Dr. Asa Gray considers it identical with the British one. 
These specimens favour the latter view as far as foliage is 
concerned. 
The Rev. J. E. Vize exhibited and described the hairs of 
a foreign Lepidopterous caterpillar. He said the specimen 
had remained for many years in spirit, and no record had 
been preserved with it ; it was evidently not British, but he 
had hitherto been unable to identify it with any described 
foreign species in books to which he had access. 
The body was covered with very large compound hairs 
which gave the entire creature the appearance of a tuft of 
moss, and might possibly serve for its protection by the 
likeness to a vegetable growth. The unusual and peculiar 
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