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XXX. Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean 



Society of London. 



Jan. 21, Read a Communication from Major-general Hard- 

 1823. wicke, F.L.S., containing a Description, accompanied 

 with a Drawing, of the Cervus Pygargus of Pallas, or 

 Tail-less Deer, a native of the snowy mountains and 

 - plains of Muktinauth, about five weeks' journey from 

 the valley of Nepaul, in a north-west direction. The 

 subject examined was a full-grown male, 7 feet 8 inches 

 in length from the tip of the upper lip to the extremity 

 of the very short tail, and 4 feet 3 inches in height. 



Major-general Hardwicke also communicated to the 

 Society an account of the Wild Sheep, or Ovis Argali 

 of Pallas, common to the mountains and plains between 

 the Himdldya range and the valley of Nepaul. 



Feb. 18. Alterations in the 2d Section of Chapter II. and 

 the 2d Section of Chapter X. of the Bye-Laws of the 

 Society having been proposed by the Council, and 

 read at the last two General Meetings, as directed by 

 the Charter, were put to the ballot, and confirmed. 

 The altered Laws are as follows, viz. 



Chap. II. Sect. 2. 



" Every person who shall be elected a Fellow after 

 the 24th day of May 1823, shall, before he be ad- 



4 F 2 mitted, 



