126 Zoological Proceedings of Societies, 



Art. XIV. Proceedings of Learned Societies on subjects 

 connected with Zoology, 



LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



March 4, 1828. — A Communication from the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, 

 M. A., F. L. S., was read, On the distinctive Characters of two British 

 Species of Plecotus, Geoff., supposed to have been confounded under the 

 name of Long-eared Bat. 



A new Bat found adhering to the bark of a pollard willow, and which 

 the authour names brevimanus, is discriminated in this memoir from the 

 PL auritus, which, together with barbastellus, constitutes the genus Pie- 

 cotus of Geoff. The specific character of the PL brevimanus is thus 

 given, " vellere supra rufo-fusco, subtiis albescente : auricuhs oblongis, 

 ** capitehaud duplo longioribus; trago ovato-lanceolato : cauda antibra- 

 '* chium longitudine aequanti, apice acuto." It is smaller than the PL 

 auritus, and this difference in absolute size, taken in conjunction with 

 the difference in the relative proportion of parts, especially of the anterior 

 extremity, in the colour, and in the apparent habits, seems to require 

 that it should be regarded as a distinct species. 



March 18. The chair having been taken by A. B. Lambert, Esq., 

 V. P. ; Edward Forster, Esq., the Treasurer of the Society, commu- 

 nicated to the meeting the afflicting tidings which had arrived during the 

 day of the decease of Sir James Edward Smith, their eminent and much- 

 beloved President; an office to which he had been appointed by the 

 annual and unanimous choice of the Society from its first establishment 

 in 1788, till his death. The Society immediately adjourned. 



April \. — Lord Stanley in the Chair. 



His Lordship opened the meeting of the Society by adverting, with 

 much feeling, to the great loss which had been sustained by the country 

 and by the world, and more especially by the Society, in the death of its 

 illustrious and beloved President, Sir James Edward Smith, who from its 

 first establishment, in which he had taken an active part, had been called 

 upon to preside over it by the annual and unanimous votes of its mem- 

 bers, and had greatly contributed to place the Society in the distinguished 



