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Tenth Meeting — March 10, 1851. 

 JOSEPH DICKINSON, Esq., M.D., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Edward Higgin exhibited three skulls of the feline 

 tribe : one of them that of a full-grown Bengal tiger ; another 

 that of an aged tigress ; and the third, which was much larger 

 than either of the others, was probably that of a lion. So 

 similar are the head bones of the lion and the tiger, that it was 

 doubtful, in the absence of positive evidence, to which animal 

 it had belonged. Of the death of the first of these animals, 

 he read an account and exhibited the skin. The second 

 showed marks of having been wounded in the lower jaw, the 

 bone being diseased there and considerably thickened. 



The Society received, with deep regret, the communication 

 of the death of Mr. Melly, from the Rev. Mr. Higgins. The 

 loss sustained by the scientific world, and especially by natu- 

 ralists, was very great. Dr. Dickinson remarked upon his 

 private worth and the valuable aid furnished by him to the 

 Museum of the Royal Institution. Perhaps no private indi- 

 vidual possessed a more valuable cabinet of coleopterous 

 insects, and his collection of other objects of natural history 

 was extensive. 



The death of this gentleman took place at Gegee, near 

 Abar Hamed, on the Nile, on the 19th of January. With 

 Mrs. Melly and his family, he had proceeded to the con- 

 fluence of the Blue and White Nile, as far as the province 

 of Khartoun, and were returning when he catched fever 

 and died. 



Mr. J. B. Edwa-RDS, F.C.S., then read, and illustrated by 

 drawings and apparatus, a paper on the subject of Induced 



