582 Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 
mitted, pay to the use of the Society the sum of Five 
Guineas for his Admission Fee: and if any such per- 
son refuse or fail to pay the said sum, his election 
shall be void, unless the- Admission Fee be remitted 
in whole or in part by a special order of the Council." 
CHAP. X. SECT. 2. 
* Every sum of money payable on account of the 
Society, amounting to Five Pounds or upwards, shall 
be paid by order of the Council, signed by the Presi- 
dent or Vice-President in the Chair, and registered by 
the Secretary." | 
Read a Description, by Major-general Hardwicke, of 
the Sciurus Petaurista of Linn. from Singapore, where 
it is frequently seen springing playfully among the 
trees in forests. ; 
March 4. Major-general Hardwicke communicated a Descrip- 
tion and Drawing of the Boa phrygia of Shaw, which 
the General considers as a species of Coluber, the sub- 
caudal scales, at least in some specimens, being all 
divided.—** The habits of this serpent are very active. 
Like other serpents it was sluggish about the time 
of its periodical changes of skin, viz. every thirty or 
thirty-five days, and it seldom appeared inclined to 
take food while under that operation ; but soon after 
having cast the old skin it readily took what was put 
into the cage. Within twelve months it had eaten four 
chickens, two pigeons, two rats, and one crow. Its 
total length was 8 feet 2 inches, of which the tail mea- 
sured 14 inches." 
June 
