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November 28th, 1864. 
Joseph Sidebotham, Esq., President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
Specimens Exhibited. 
Physcomitrium sphoericum, by Mr. G. E. Hunt, found 
sparingly in three places on the borders of Mere Mere, this 
being only the second occasion on which it lias been gathered 
in Britain. The first was thirty years ago, when it was 
detected in the same place by Mr. Wilson in the autumn of 
1834. 
Four species of Curculionidae, new to Britain, by the 
President, as exhibited and examined at the Entomological 
Society, London ; Lixus filiformis and Sibynes canus, 
Devizes ; Ceuthorhynchidius poweri, Silverdale ; and Peri- 
telus griseus, Yentnor, Isle of Wight. Three of the species 
were captured by himself. [See Zoologist, December, 1864.] 
A martin, entirely white, from Urmstone, by Mr. Linton. 
Communications. 
Mr. G. E. Hunt announced bis discovery of Potamogeton 
nitens in Loch Ascog, Rothsay. This plant was first ob- 
served as British by Mr. David Moore, Dublin, in a lake near 
the sea, at Castle Gregory, county of Kerry, in July last, 
[See Secman’s Journal of Botany, November, 1864.] 
Thomas Alcock, M.D., read a paper on specimens from 
Roundstone, Connemara. He exhibited many specimens, 
including forty-three species of Foraminifcra, two of which 
were forms of Entosolenia, hitherto undescribed ; also, young 
shells of Patella vulgata and P. pellucida, Avitli the larval 
shells still attached and distinctly spiral, evidence not before 
recorded. 
