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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS. 
Fifeshire Journal of Jan. 17, but we have only room to enumerate the titles of 
the various papers read. 
After a considerable number of donations had been announced, Dr. Govan 
read a paper “On the Vegetable and Mineral Productions of the Himalaya 
Mountains;” Mr. C. Dempster “ On the Invention of the Anti-dry-rot Solution, 
now generally esteemed as the discovery of Mr. Kyan,” but the honour of which 
the author considers due to himself; Col. Reid “ On Predictions of the Weather,” 
which, he conceived, might be made with accuracy: this paper was read by Sir 
David Brewster ; “ On the Isle of Albion, showing how it was once firm-land 
or Continent with France,” by Mr. Page ; and several other valuable com¬ 
munications. 
BLACKBURN PHRENOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Feb. 27.—Mr. Carus delivered an excellent lecture on Phrenology, which, we 
believe, has appeared in the 'Blackburn Gazette .—The Secretary then read a 
highly complimentary letter he had received from H. C. Campbell, Esq., one of 
the Honorary Secretaries of the Manchester Geological Society, accepting the 
offer of the Blackburn Society to co-operate with them in the study of geological 
science. Also one from Mr. James Simpson, Advocate, Edinburgh, expressive 
of his gratification in being elected an Honorary Member. Mr. II. C. Watson 
and Mr. Neville Wood have likewise been elected Honorary Members. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS. 
ZOOLOGY. 
1. New Crustacea.- —A surgeon of the French navy, M. Mistre, recently 
arrived at Brest, among several new and interesting objects of Natural History, 
has brought a new Macrura , which he found at Rio Janeiro, in Pinna nobilis. 
The existence of this animal in the seas of the New World is a curious fact in 
the Geography of Zoology, for since the time of Aristotle, it has only been 
found in the Mediterranean. 
2. Lace made by Caterpillars. —A most extraordinary species of manufac¬ 
ture has been contrived by an officer of engineers residing at Munich. It consists 
of lace veils, with open patterns in them, made entirely by caterpillars. The 
following is the mode of proceeding adopted .-—Having made a paste of the leaves 
of the plant on which the species of caterpillar he employs feeds, he spreads it 
