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the 17th June, 189G), had two Black Woodpeckers in his aviary 

 in Northamptonshire, and in consequence of their ailing in liealth, 

 had given them their liberty. It seemed possible that one of 

 these might be the bird lately shot in Yorkshire. 



Mr. J E. Hartiug also exhibited in the flesh a hybrid Pheasant 

 and Black Grouse, which hud been received that day from Shrop- 

 shire. In appearance it ) recisuly resembled a similar hybrid of 

 which a coloured figure is given in early editions of White's 

 ' Selborne.' 



On behalf oT Mr. Leonard Lush, of Stonehouse, Grloucester- 

 shire, three white Partridges {Perdix cinerea) were exhibited, 

 which had been shot by him on the Berwyn Mountains in Wales, 

 early in October last. It was remarkable that in the covey, 

 which consisted of nine birds, no less than five of them were 

 white, four only being of the normal colour. 



Mr. Hamilton Leigh, F.L.S., exhibited the skull of a Eed 

 Deer recently shot by hiin in Scotland, in which there was a 

 singular distortion of the pedicel, resulting from an ancient 

 fracture of the left temporal bone. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On Pontoholbos manaarensis" By Prof. Arthur Dendy, 

 F.L.S. 



2. " On Hadilonia, a new genus of Foraminifera." By 

 Frederick Chapman, A.L.S. 



December 2nd, 1897. 



Dr. Albert C. L. G. GtJNTHEE, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. John Stewart Eemington, Albert Henry Pawson, and 

 George Creswell Turner were admitted ; and Messrs. John 

 Donuell Smith, Thomas Jeff"ery Parker, Walter Wilson Froggatt, 

 Henry William Marett Sims, AVilliam John Hume MoCorquodale, 

 Jose de Campos IVovaes, and Alberto Lofgren were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.L.S. , exhibited specimens of Cecidomyia 

 afrobiloides, which he collected in August last at Ithaca, NA''., 

 and made remarks upon its cone-like galls which were found on 

 Willows. 



Mr. M. F. Woodward exhibited and made remarks upon an 

 egg of Echidna taken from the mammary pouch of the parent at 

 Coorinja, \V. Australia, by Mr. B. H. Woodward, Curator of 

 the Perth Museum. 



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