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size, habits and general aspect of Antilope and Gazella ; females hornless, 

 with lesser inguinal purses, and two teats. 



1 spec, new and type; Antilope Hodgesonii of Abel ; theChiru of Thibet. 



Cervidce. 

 Genus Cervus. 



Subgenera : Harana nob. 1 spec. Cervus Wallichii Auct. type. Size 

 small ; tail nearly obsolete ; horns small, branched at the base as in Cervus, 

 above as in Rusa, and quadrifurcate. 



Rucervus nob. 1 spec. Cervus Elapho'ides nob. type. Aspect and size 

 mediate between E lap hus and Hipp e lap hus ; muzzle remarkably pointed ; 

 horns moderate, smooth, pale ; one forward basal process on each beam ; 

 no median ; summit branched as in Elaphus; canines in the males only. 



Rusa, 2 new spec. Jaraya et Nipalensis, nob. ; canines in both sexes. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Extract from the Address of the President, the Rev. W. Whewell, 

 delivered at the Anniversary on the \6th February, 1838. 



" The Council have awarded the Wollaston Medal, as you have al- 

 ready been informed, to Mr. Richard Owen, for his general services 

 to Fossil Zoology, and especially for his labours employed upon the 

 fossil mammalia collected by Mr. Darwin in the Voyage of Captain 

 Fitz Roy. I need not remind you, Gentlemen, how close are the ties 

 which connect the study of living and of fossil animals ; how much 

 light the progress of comparative anatomy throws upon the inter- 

 pretation of geological characters ; and what important steps in our 

 knowledge of the past condition of the earth are restorations of the 

 animal forms which peopled its surface in former times, but have 

 long vanished away. Since the immortal Cuvier breathed into our 

 science a new principle of life, the value of such researches has ever 

 been duly appreciated; and the award of the Wollaston Medal last year 

 is an evidence how gladly your Council take that method of congra- 

 tulating the successful cultivators of such studies. I am sure that 

 all who are acquainted with Mr. Owen's labours will rejoice that we 

 have in this manner marked our sense of his success. His earlier 

 researches, those for instance on the Nautilus, have been of exceeding 

 use and interest to geologists. And the first part of his description 

 of the fossil mammalia, collected by Mr. Darwin in South America, 

 contains matters of the most striking novelty, interest, and import- 

 ance. We have there the restoration, performed with a consummate 

 skill, such as fitly marks the worthy successor of Hunter and the disci- 

 ple of Cuvier, of two animals, not only of new genera, but occupying 

 places in the series of animal forms, which are peculiarly instructive. 



