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" establisliment. The most active of its original promoters, he has con- 

 " tinued to advance its interests, and those of the science to which it is 

 " devoted, by the strenuous and unremitted exertion of his talents ; that the 

 " opportunity of employing them in a more extended circle, and of thereby 

 " more effectually furthering the objects for which the Club was instituted, 

 " should have been the sole cause of his retirement, is a source of gratifica- 

 " tion which lessens the regret it must necessarily feel for the loss of so 

 " valuable an officer. 



Mr. Yarrell exhibited a specimen of the Ember iza hortulana, Linn., 

 killed near Manchester, in November last; and entered at some length 

 into the history of our acquaintance with the Emberiza chlorocephala, 

 Gm., the original specimen of which, now belonging to the Newcastle 

 Museum, v^ras on the table, having been forwarded to the Linnean Society 

 by G. T. Fox, Esq. The substance of Mr. Yarrell's observations on this 

 subject having already appeared in this Journal, in a communication 

 from that Gentleman, (Vol. III. p. 498,) it is unnecessary to repeat it 

 here. 



A Notice on the Axolotl of the Mexicans, considered as the type of a 

 new order of Reptiles: by Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S., &c. was read. 

 The subject was afterwards illustrated by the authour, who exhibited 

 Specimens and dissections of the animal, which he proposed to designate 

 Philhydrus pisciformis, of the Siren lacertina, of the genus Chirotes, and 

 of other approximating genera. 



Feb'. 12. — A paper on the distinctive characters of two British species 

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

 long-eared Bat: by^he Rev. Leonard Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S., was read. 

 Specimens preserved in spirit of each of the species were exhibited to the 

 Meeting ; as was also a specimen of Vespertilio mystacinus, Leisl., taken 

 at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, being the second instance of its occurrence 

 in this country. 



Feb. 26. — Mr. Vigors exhibited several birds sent by G. T. Fox, Esq., 

 F.L.S., from the Newcastle Museum. Among these he pointed out par- 

 ticularly the Kasarka Duck, ./Inas rutila, Temm., the specimen exhibited 

 being unique as British. From this weire taken the figure of the Grey- 

 headed Duck, given in Brown's Illustrations of Zoology, and the figure of 

 the Ferruginous Duck contained in the last edition of Bewick's British 

 Birds. 



