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splendid opportunities their port afforded, of extending our acquaintance with 
both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. The first was a new genus of land 
shell, intermediate between Helix and Anostoma. 2ndly, Several new species 
%vhich he designated as follows:— A'chatina Funita^ Carocolla filomarginata^ 
from India, and Paludina Yafesii^ one of the largest and most beautiful 
species of this elegant genus. He then introduced a species of Unio^ new to 
this country, and discovered by Mr. Gilbertson, of Preston, a zealous and ex¬ 
emplary naturalist, at Broughton, near Craven, in Yorkshire. The species was 
Unio Rogsii. 
Dr. Vigors stated that he was sorry not to be able to read his paper “ On the 
Classification of Birds” to the Section, at their present meeting. He was not 
sufficiently prepared to lay before them, distinctly, his views on this important 
subject. He stated that he should have had great pleasure in doing so, on account 
of the presence of their honoured President, whose philosophic views of the 
arrangement of the Animal Kingdom he had endeavoured to apply to his classifi¬ 
cation of birds. 
The Bev. F. W. Hope exhibited some rare insects he had found in the col¬ 
lection of Mr. Melly, of Liverpool. The first was a female specimen of the Cke- 
loderma Childreni. The second Chiasognathus Grantii, and the third a very 
curious species of Curculio. 
Other papers had been announced, but as the time for closing approached, they 
were postponed. 
The President then took a general survey of the subjects on which they had 
been occupied. He pointed out the importance of the inquiries in which the 
section had been engaged. This section bore on all, and the investigations which 
they met to pursue, were essential to improvement in other branches of science. 
It was this Section alone that could explain the anomalous results of the experi¬ 
ments of a Crosse; it was this Section alone that could decipher the fossil 
hieroglyphics discovered by the geologist; and it was to this Section that the 
medical philosopher must repair for obtaining rational and philosophic views of 
the phenomena of both healthy and diseased bodies. He trusted that the meet¬ 
ings of the Association would be the means of directing increased attention to 
these branches of science, by shewing to the public the practical value of their 
investigations. 
[We have supplied a full report of the Section of Natural History at the 
British Association, as we have been enabled, with the kind assistance of a 
gentleman who attended the meetings, not only to correct the errors of previous 
accounts, but likewise to add much new and interesting matter, not hitherto 
presented to the public.— Ed.] 
