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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
correct a previous communication of mine on the analysis of Gould’s Birds of 
Europe^ in The Analyst. 
I remain, my dear Sir, 
Yours very truly, 
Thetford., Norfolk, J. D. Salmon. 
Sept. 6, 1836. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT 
LIVERPOOL, 
SEPTEMBER, 1837. 
President —W. S. Macleay, Esq., F.S.L. ; Vice Presidents — Dr. Richardson, Prof. Graham, 
Prof. Lindley; Secretaries — C. C. Babington, F.L.S., W. SwAiNSON,Esq., A.C.G., F.L.S., Rev. 
Leonard Jenyns, F.L.S. 
Committee — Resr . Dr. Hincks, N. A. Vigors, Esq., M.P.,'D.C.L,, F.R.S., F.L.S., Rev. F.W. 
Hope, F.R.S., Dr. Neill, Prof. Henslow, Dr. Traill, Earl of Derby, Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S., 
John Curtis, F.L.S., T. C. Eyton, Esq., P. B. Duncan, F.L.S., J. E. Gray, F.R.S., C. S. Par¬ 
ker, Rev. J. YatEvS, j. E. Bowman, Esq., C. Horsfall, R. Ball, P. J. Selby, Esq., F.R.S.E., 
JM.W.S., L. W. Dillwyn, J. N. Walker, A. H. Haliday, J. T. Mackay, Capt. J. Ross, Sir 
W. Jardine, Bart., F.R.S.E., M.W.S., Messrs. R. Harrison, H. Sandbach, Tinne, J. Salis¬ 
bury, Green, F. Archer, G. Cooke, Dr. Duncan, 
The general arrangements at Liverpool for the reception of the seventh meeting 
of the Association were not at all inferior to those made in other places. But 
as these have been so fully and generally reported through the medium of the 
daily and weekly press, we shall only advert to those points, and detail those 
proceedings, which wo think will most interest the readers of The Naturalist. 
We shall, therefore, at once proceed to give a full account of the transactions of 
that section of the Association devoted to Zoology and Botany. The meetings of 
this section were held in the Theatre of the Royal Institution. On Monday 
morning (Sept. 11) the chair of the section was taken by William Sharpe 
Macleay, Esq. 
The business commenced with a paper by Dr. Traill, on a species ofAryas, 
from the province of Mianneh, in Persia. He proposed to name it A. Persicus. 
He said he had called the attention of the members to this insect on account of 
the painful wounds and dangerous constitutional effects produced by its bite. 
He thought it belonged to the class Arachnidce: It was an octopod, and re¬ 
sembled the parasitic insect that infects Pigeons. The constitutional symptoms 
following the bite were similar to those of typhus fever. 
The president observed that some of the statements with regard to these 
insects were erroneous, and frequently derived from popular prejudice. 
