1844.] Linnean Society. 191 



April 2. 



R. BrowTi, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Robert Donaldson, Esq., M.D., and Joseph Exall, Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Read a continuation of Mr. Newport's " Monograph on the My- 

 riapoda Chilopoda." 



AprU 16. 

 E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 

 John AUcard, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Read the conclusion of Mr. Newport's " Monograph on the My- 

 riapoda Chilopoda." 



Mr. Newport commences his memoir by remarking on the smaller 

 degree of attention which has been paid to Myriapoda than to any 

 other class of Articulata. His inability, from this circumstance, sa- 

 tisfactorily to identify the specimens in the anatomical examination 

 of which he was engaged, induced him to undertake a complete re- 

 vision of the class, as far as the materials within his reach, and con- 

 tained in the cabinets of the Rev. F. W. Hope, the British Museum, 

 the United Service Museum, that of the Zoological Societj^ and in 

 the Linnean and Banksian collections in the possession of the Society, 

 would admit. 



After passing in review the characters of the class, and noticing 

 the different views of authors with respect to its classification as a 

 whole, Mr. Newport enters at length into the reasons which induce 

 him, in accordance with Leach, Latreille and others, and in oppo- 

 sition to Professor Brandt, to separate the Myriapoda from true in- 

 sects, and to place them, as a class, immediately before the Annelida. 



He details his motives for preferring, with reference to the classi- 

 fication of the Invertebrata, a system founded on the skeleton and 

 organs of locomotion, together with the nervous svstem, to that 

 which is usually adopted, based on the organs of nutrition. Guided 

 by these views he proposes to place the sub-kingdom Articulata at 



