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Derby, and a specimen of Onyckotenthus an Bergii, from Mr. Waterhouse. 

 Other presents were likewise noticed, from Her Majesty, the Marchioness of 

 Winchester, Sir Herbert Taylor, and others. — Mr. Cox moved, that the 

 Council be recommended to establish lectures on Zoology, and to provide places 

 for the dissection of animals dying at the gardens, in order to increase the utility 

 of the Society. We think the motion an excellent one, and are happy to be 

 enabled to add, that it was carried. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



The following noblemen and gentlemen have been elected to form a committee 

 of management of this Society : — President, the Earl of Liverpool ; Vice 'Presi- 

 dents, the Duke of Bedford, K. G., the Bishop of Norwich, Sir Robert Peel, 

 Bart., M. P., D. C. L., F. R. S., W. Swainson, Esq., A. C. G., F. R. S., &c.» 

 N. A. Vigors, Esq., M. P., D. C. L., F. R. S. ; Council— the Rev. R. W.- 

 Browne, B. A., W. G. Chapman, Esq., Harry Chester, Esq., M. P., N. W. 

 R. Colborne, Esq., M. P., J. C. Gowen, Esq., F. G. S., Robert Gordon, Esq., 

 M. P., J. E. Gray, Esq., F. R. S., Mr. W. Holl, F. G. S. (formerly Editor of 

 this Magazine), Capt. Mangles, R. N., F. R. S., W. S. Macleay, Esq., M. A., 

 F. L. S., the Earl of Orkney, the Rev. Cyril Page, Sir John D. Paul, Bart., 

 J. F. Royle, M. D., F. R. S. 



There will be a general meeting of the Society on Saturday, the 3rd of June, 

 and until that day candidates may be elected by the council on application to 

 the Secretary. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 



ZOOLOGY. 



1. Observations on the Kangaroos. — The Great Kangaroo (Macropus 

 major) does not make use of its tail in leaping ; it uses it in walking, but above 

 all when standing still. When excited, the male stands upon the tips of its 

 feet and tail ; and it then appears of a prodigious height. When it strikes, it 

 does not rest upon the tail and one foot, but, balancing a few moments upon the 

 tail only, it beats before with the two legs from behind. The Kanguroo enfume 

 of Cuvier never employs its legs for striking ; it usually contents itself with 

 menacing with the teeth and a low growling. Dr. Robert Heron has, how- 

 ever, seen it, when attacked by an Emu, fly at the head of the bird ; but neither 

 the one nor the other persevered in the combat. When the Great Kangaroo is in 



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