318 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



munication between the Greeks and ^Ethiopia. Arab authors, however, acr 

 cording to Bochart (1G63), frequently mention it. It seems to have been 

 reintroduced into Europe at the time of the Crusades ; but the only notice of it 

 known to the author occurs a.d. 1260, amongst the presents sent by the Mame- 

 luke Sultan of Egypt to the Emperor Michael Pal^eologus. This was probably 

 the last specimen seen at Constantinople previous to the Turkish conquest, and 

 with the exception of two sent over by the Sultan of Egypt, in the fifteenth 

 century — one to the Emperor Frederick III., the other to Lorenzo de' Medici, 

 the author has not found any allusion to its having been seen alive in Europe-, 

 from that time to its recent introduction. Frequent notices, however, of it are 

 given by European travellers who visited the courts of Oriental sovereigns. The 

 animal was found, towards the end of the 18th century, at the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; and, its skin having been brought to Europe by Patterson and Gordon, 

 enabled Buffon to describe it ; and a complete account of its habits was furnished 

 by Le Vaillant. It is only within a few years that it has been re-discovered 

 in its original known habitat of Abyssinia and Kordofan, from which countries, 

 since their conquest by the Pacha of Egypt, the beautiful specimens now at Paris 

 and London have been introduced to the notice of Europeans.— •Athcnceum, 

 April 7, 1838. 



BRISTOL, CLIFTON, AND WEST OF ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY. 



The Annual General Meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday. The 

 report was satisfactory. It appeared that £925. 18s. had been taken at the 

 gate, £102. 16s. from subscribers, and at the Fetes, £797. 6s. 4<d. had been 

 received. The expenses of the Fetes amounted to £46. 16s. lOd. — Gloucester 

 Chronicle, April 14, 1838. 



CHELTENHAM LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. 



April 24. — The business of the evening being over, it was announced that the 

 last meeting of the session would take place on Tuesday evening, May' 2, when a 

 paper " On the Study of Natural History" was to be read by Mr. Buckenan,. 

 preliminary to receiving the report of the Sub-Committee appointed to consider 

 the best course to be pursued for the purpose of establishing a section for the 

 cultivation of Natural History in immediate connexion with the Institution, and 

 to be entitled the Natural History Section. — Cheltenham Looker-On, April 28, 

 1838. 



