he considers it to he a new genus, and lias called it 
ropi * Uinimdt'vH with the specific name Album. It is, he 
says, the simplest foraminifer yet known, and is therefore 
the most closely connected with the famous Eozoon Cana- 
dense of Laurcntianic formation. 
Mr de Comarmond presented to our Society two fine 
living birds of the species known under the name of Dutch 
Pigeons, a native of Seychelles where it is very common. 
It is the j E rythcena pulcherima. 
Another very handsome bird figured and described by 
Sonnerat, as the large Madagascar Quail, was recently 
shot by a sportsman on account of its resemblance to the 
Perdrix pintadee . 
It was recognized as the Margaroperdix striata intro- 
duced from Madagascar and has commenced to breed ni 
Mauritius. It would be very desirable that it should 
continue to increase on a larger scale, but for this, some 
protective measure should be indispensable. 
Botany. — Mr Horne communicated a letter written by 
him to Dr Hooker, who caused it to be inserted in the 
Journal oj the Linnean Society of London. It contains a 
short summary of Mr Horne’s observations on the Flora 
of Seychelles as compared with that of Madagascar and 
the Mascarenha’s Islands. 
Mr Horne seems to point out that the plants of Sey- 
chelles bear more resemblance to those of Madagascar 
than to those of Mauritius and Reunion. We can readily 
understand the resemblance, when we bear in mind the 
