NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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imminent danger by a severe attack of fever, brought on by malaria. In 1845 he 
became a fellow of the Royal Society; in 1846 he was again attacked by a severe 
illness, from which he also rallied; in 1848 he married a daughter of the late 
General Sir. C. Ashworth; in 1850 he completed, with Mr. Hanley, the splendid 
work on the “ Natural History of the British Mollusca and their Shells.” In May, 
1854, on the demise of Professor Jameson, he was called to the Chair of Natural 
History in the University of Edinburgh. This had long been the darling object of 
his ambition, and he was actively engaged in forming collections to add to the 
museum. He commenced his lectures on 1st November, 1854, and lectured for 
five or six days. During all this time he complained more or less of febrile 
symptoms ; these, at last, increased so much, that he consulted Dr. Bennett, who at 
once ordered him to give up lecturing ; which he did on the 9th of November. He 
appeared to be amending up to the 15th, when the symptoms became of a more- 
alarming nature. On the evening of Friday he gave his last directions, leaving hi* 
specimens to the college museum, and his papers to R. G. Austen, Esq. He con¬ 
tinued to sink, and died at 5j, p.m., on Saturday, 18th November, being sensible 
to the last. Bibliographical Notices. Proceedings of Learned Societies—Zoolo¬ 
gical Society. Miscellaneous—Notes on the Reproduction of Ligula, by M. Druille; 
Description of the animal of Cyclina sinensis, by Dr. J. E. Gray; Observations 
on the Development of Actiniae, by M. Lacaze-Dutheirs. Meteorological Obser¬ 
vations and Table, for November, 1854. 
No. 86, February:—(R. C. R. Jordan, M.B.) Some account of the Actiniadae, 
found on the coast, near Teignmouth, Devon. During the month of April, 1854, 
Dr. Jordan proceeded to investigate the various species of Actiniae, and other 
allied genera, found upon the coast, near Teignmouth. The part examined extended 
from the small rocks between the beach at Dawlish and the Warren on the one side, 
to the rocks bounding the Torre Abbey Sands on the other—being rather more 
than ten miles of coast. The Actiniae found—A. mesembryanthemum, common ; 
A. alba, rare; A. troglodytes, very abundant; A. aurantiacea, Jordan , local— 
a new species, being, when contracted into a cone, of a deep orange, with a central 
spot of deeper tinge; A. n. sp. (?) pulcherrima, Jor. Only one example of this 
Actinia was found, and it appears to differ from A. rosea, Gosse ; however, it will 
require some comparison with that species before it is satisfactorily made a new 
species. A. parasitica, very common; A. clavata, Thomp ., var. rosacea, Gosse, only 
one specimen found ; A. coriacea, common ; A. dianthus, cast rather frequently on 
the beach during the winter storms ; Anthea cereus, common. (G. Busk) On a 
Monstrous Oyster-shell, with a plate; (0. C. Babington) On Hypericum 
anglicum; (A. R. Wallace) On the Ornithology of Malacca. From these short 
notes of Mr. Wallace’s it would appear, that Malacca is nearly as productive a 
country for the ornithologist as for an entomologist, as he was enabled to make a 
large collection of the native birds during about seven weeks. (S. P. Woodward) 
Descriptions of the Animals of certain genera of Bivalve Shells; (T. Wright, 
M.D.) On Fossil Echinoderms from the Island of Malta, with notes on the Strati- 
graphical Distribution of the Fossil Organisms in the Maltese Beds; (Rev. T. 
Hincks) Notes on British Zoophytes, with descriptions of new species, with two 
plates. The new species are, one new Sertularia (S. alata), a new Polyzoon (Halia 
prsetenuis) ; and, also, notes of the occurrence of Cellularia cuspidata, at Brixham; 
of Caberea boryi, at Devon; and of Laomedea lacerata, at Exmouth; also, a 
