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and others, but that it is in reality a distinct species. The 

 Pongo at the College of Surgeons has five caudal vertebrae, while 

 all the skeletons of Simia Satyrus have but four : there are also 

 material differences in the cranium and scapulae. 



The Society then adjourned over the long vacation, to meet 

 again on Tuesday, Nov. 6. 



ZOOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



March 14 (Sf 28, 1826. — A paper vras read, entitled Observations 

 on the ends proposed in Natural History by the use of artificial 

 and natural methods j by J. E. Bicheno, Esq. Sec. L.S. 



JprilW. — ^The Secretary read A description of some new species 

 o/Phasianidaj, by Major Gen. T. Hardwicke, F.R. & L.S. 



April 25. — A discussion took place on the principles of arrange- 

 ment in Natural History. 



May 9. — Mr. Vigors gave a description of the species of the 

 New-IIolland genus Meliphaga^ and pointed out the sectional 

 subdivisions of the genus, as they more or less accorded with the 

 typical characters. 



May 28. — A paper by Mr.Yarrell, on the tracheae of birds, was 

 read, of which an account will be found in our report of the pror 

 ceedings of the Linnean Society. 



June 13. — Mr. Vigors resumed the discussion which had taken 

 place among the Members of the Club, on the 14th and 28lh of 

 March, and the 11th and 25th of April; making a particular refer* 

 ence to the views of arrangement which had been promulgated in 

 this country by the publication of the " Iloraj Entomologicae." He 

 endeavoured to prove that the views exhibited in that work were 

 improvements, not innovations, upon those which had previously 

 existed, and were commensurate with, and rendered necessary by, 

 the increasing information of the age. He adverted to the con- 

 fusion which had arisen in Zoology by the indiscriminate use of 

 the terms natural and artificial Systems ; contending that, philo- 

 sophically speaking, there is but one natural system^ — the System 

 of the Universe as originally planned by the Creator, — and that 

 all systems of arrangement introduced by man are purely artificial, 

 and are merely symbolick representations by which the naturalist 



