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nucleus is then easily isolated; it is of an irregular, oval form, quite colour¬ 
less, and marked on its surface with curved striae. Individuals were fre¬ 
quently seen undergoing spontaneous division, which takes place parallel to the 
annular furrow, and in the unfurrowed hemisphere. This process appears 
to be invariably preceded by a division of the nucleus; and the author had 
succeeded in isolating nuclei, presenting almost every stage of transverse fission, 
Believing the species now described to be new, I have named it P. uberrima .” 
(F. Okeden) On the deep Diatomaceous deposits of the mud of Milford 
Haven and other localities. By means of a new boring apparatus, Mr. 
Okeden was enabled to examine the mud, at the great distance of fifty feet below 
the surface. (W. Gregory, M.D.) On a post tertiary Lacustrine Sand, containing 
Diatomaceous Exuvia, from Glenshira, near Inverary. In this very interesting 
paper Professor Gregory enumerates 234 species as occuring in the Glenshira sand; 
twenty-three species are figured in a plate, annexed to this paper, by Mr. Tuffen 
West. (Dr. F. d’Alquen) A few remarks on a paper read before the Boyal So¬ 
ciety, by Dr. J. W. Griffith, on the Angular Aperture of Object Glasses ; (T. H. 
Huxley, F.R.S.) On the structure of Noctiluca Miliaris. We have full details of a 
very singular and anomalous creature which plays a most important part in causing 
that silvery, sparkling, phosphorescent light, which is so often seen on dark nights 
gleaming from the boat-oars as they rise to the surface of the water, or defining 
the contour of the waves as they break upon the shore. (Hon. and Rev. S. G» 
Osborne) Economy of Closterium lunula. Translations—On the Male Reproduc¬ 
tive Organs of Campanularia geniculata, by Dr. Max S. Schultze ; Memoir on the 
Coloration of the China Sea, by M. Camille Dareste ; On the Life and Growth of 
Nematoids, by MM. Ercolani et Louis Yella. Reviews—Lectures on Histology, 
by J. Quekett, vol. ii. Notes and Correspondence. Proceedings of Societies— 
Geological Society. On the Microscopical Structure of Freshwater Marls and 
Limestones, by H. Clifton Sorbey, F.G.S. Index and Title-pages to vol. ii. 
Th© Zoologist. No. 144, October ; No. 145, November ; and No. 146, December, 
1854. 8vo. London: J. Van Voorst. Is. each number. 
No. 144, October:—(Rev. George Gordon) A list of the Mollusca,#hitherto 
found in the Province of Moray and in the Moray Firth—concluded from page 
4435. Mr. Gordon is well known to the readers of the “ Zoologist” by his lists of 
the fauna of Moray, which have, from time to time, appeared in its pages ; and the 
present catalogue we regard as the most valuable of them all, but are sorry that the 
Rev. George Gordon should, in his table comparing the Molluscean Fauna, of 
Moray, with those of Northumberland and Durham, Aberdeenshire and Dublin, 
have given the number of species frequenting the latter place so very incorrectly, as 
actually to make it appear that the well-investigated County of Dublin, second, we 
hold it, to none for natural history, should have no less than fifty-nine species less 
than his favourite province of Moray. Our readers are, doubtless, aware, that Mr. 
W. W. Walpole’s list of the Dublin Mollusca, which is the one Mr. Gordon 
refers to as his authority for the Dublin species, only gave that gentleman’s own ex¬ 
perience ; and numerous as any one’s investigations may be, we yet hold it impossible 
that, without aid, they could give anything like a complete catalogue:—for example, 
Mr. Walpole gives the names of 49, not 50, of the Pulmonifera as inhabiting 
