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Children, Esq. ; Adrian Hardy Haworth, Esq. ; William Sharp 

 Mac Leay, Esq. ; Joseph Smith, Esq. 



Presidetn, — bir James Edward Smith. 



Vice Presidents, — Samuel, Lord Bishop of Carlisle ; Aylmer 

 Bourke Lambert, Esq. ; Edward, Lord Stanley ; William 

 George Maton, MD. 



Treasurer. — Edward Forster, Esq. 



Secretary, — Alexander Mac Leay, Esq. 



Under Secretary, — Mr. Richard Taylor. 



The following rare plants were exhibited in flower : Pancra* 

 tium Amancaes, from the garden of the Horticultural Society ; 

 Hyacinthus amethystinuSy Polygata arnaraj Ranunculus Parnas- 

 sijoliusj and Braya alpina, from the Botanic Garden at Chelsea. 



JuneS. — At this meeting, the following papers were read : 



Description of a new Species of Erythrina called E. poianthes. 

 By Felix de Avellar Brotero, Professor of Botany at Coimbra, 

 For. Mem. LS. 



E. foliis ternatis ; foliolis lateralibus ovatis, interraedio rhom- 

 beo-ovato ; omnibus subtus pubescentibus, rachi petioloque 

 communi, aculeatis, caule arboreo aculeato, calyce oblique trun- 

 cato : latere superiori vel fisso vel integro, stammibus diadelphis 

 vexillo vix brevioribus. 



Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden near Lisbon, and 

 elsewhere in Portugal. Native country unknown ; probably 

 America. 



A Letter from the Rev. Mr. Whitear of Harleston, in Norfolk, 

 stating, ihat the Little Bustard {Otis tetrax), a native of warm 

 climates, stated by Temminck never to be found in the north, 

 had been killed at Butley, near Orford, in Suffolk, in January 

 last. The specimen is now in the possession of Mr. Seaman, of 

 Ipswich. 



An Extract of a Letter from the Rev. S. L. Jacob to W. G. 

 Maton, VPLS. stating that a Flying Fish {Exocatus volans) had 

 been caught in July last, in the Bristol Channel, ten miles 

 from Bridgewater. 



A Letter from Mr. Robert Anstis relative to a bird shot in the 

 neighbourhood of Bridgewater, varying but little from the 

 Crested Cormorant, and distinguished by having 16 feathers in 

 its tail. Col. Montagu had invariably found, it was remarked, 

 that the tail of the Shag consisted of 12 feathers, and that of 

 the Cormorant of 14. 



June 17. — The following communications were read : 

 Description of Antilope Quadricorrns, the Chikara of Bengal. 

 By Major-Gen. T. Hardwicke, FLS. 



This animal is not scarce in India, Gen. Hardwicke observed, 

 yet it does not appear to have been hitherto particularly de- 

 scribed. It inhabits the forests and hilly tracts of the western 

 parts of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa. In size, it resembles the 

 namessed antelope, A, Scripta; height about 20 inches; length, 



