10 Annual Report and Transactions of the Plymouth Imtitution, 
coast. Among them may be mentioned tlie Six-gilled Shark, 
Notidaniis griseus, a magnificent specimen, measuring 
upv/ards of six-feet long ; tlie Eagle Eay, Myliohatis aquila; 
and tlie Sword Fish, X^iphias cjladius, all taken off or near 
Plymouth. 
Valuable additions have also been made to the cases of 
Mammals and Bu^ds. Some specimens of Invertebrate 
animals have been presented by Mr. Stevens, but a great 
deal still remains to be done. 
To Mr. Eeading, as Curator, the best thanks of the Society 
are due, in having laboured with a perseverance deserving 
the highest commendation. It is to be hoped that what has 
been so well begun by him and your Secretary, Mr. Howe, 
will be followed up, and their efforts seconded by their fellow 
Members, upon whom must be impressed the necessity for 
exertion among themselves and friends to make the Museum 
worthy of the Town and the two Counties. 
The Herbarium has been well attended to by its zealous 
Curator, Mr. Keys ; although many additions have not been 
made. 
Mr. Keys says in his Report, read at the Annual Meeting, 
that : — Much praise is due to Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs for 
his zealous labour as a botanist, and I am much pleased to 
find his name on our list of Members. Very lately he read 
" a most interesting lecture on the flowering plants of Ply- 
mouth, in which he described several species that he has 
" had the good fortune to discover in the neighbourhood, 
among others Barharea intermedia, Erysimum cheiran' 
^' fhoides, Camelina sativa, Silene anglica, Ruhiis saxitilis, 
^' Epllohium lanceolatum, and HyjJericum unduJatjim. The 
last-named plant is not merely new to the county, but is an 
addition to the Flora of the British Isles, and its discovery 
is a great honour to Mr. Briggs. The Journal of Botany 
