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Pitt, Chatham, were afterwards removed to Netley Museum. — Mr. F. 

 Jeflfrey Bell exhibited the immature specimen of Echinolamjms, referred to 

 by him in his communication on Palaeolampas, pointing out its more diffe- 

 rentiated characters, and suggested the possibility of its being an example of 

 E. oviformis. — Prof. Flower called the attention of the Meeting to the 

 fact that a young specimen of the Lesser Fin Whale [Balaeonoptera rostrata) 

 1 5 feet long, which had been taken off the Coast of Cornwall, was now being 

 exhibited in London. — A communication was read from Prof. J. O. West- 

 wood, containing an account of the species of Saw-flies, composing the Austra- 

 lian genus Perga of Leach. — A communication was read from Dr. W. J. 

 H offman on a supposed instance of hybridizati onbetween a Cat and a Lynx. 

 — Mr. W. A. Forbes read the second and third parts of his series of 

 papers on the anatomy of Passerine Birds. The communications related to 

 the syrinx and other points in the anatomy of the Eurylaemidae, and to the 

 structure of Pkilepitta, and its position amongst the Passeres. — A commu- 

 nication was read from Mr. F. Day, in which he gave the description of 

 a new Entomostracon from Afghanistan. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a 

 paper on a collection of Mammals brought from Ecuador by Mr. Clarence 

 Buckley. Among these was a new species of Bassaricyon, proposed to be 

 called B. Alleni. — Mr. A. G. Butler read a paper containing descriptions 

 of a collection of Lepidoptera made by Major Rowland Roberts at Rokeran, 

 near Kandahar, on the river Urgundab. — Mr. G. French Angas read a 

 paper containing further additions to the marine MoUuscan Fauna of South 

 Australia, with descriptions of six new species. — A second paper by Mr. 

 Angas contained the descriptions of three species of marine Shells from Port 

 Darwin, Torres Straits, discovered by Mr. W. J. Bednall, and of a new 

 Helix from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. — P. L. S dater. Secretary. 



IV. Personal-Notizen. 



N e e r I g. 



Verso la fine di marzo (ISSO, forse il 24), di paralisi generale seguita a 

 pleurisia, moriva in Livorno sua patria Alessandro Spagnolini, Professore 

 di scienze naturali nel Collegio militare di Firenze. Egli era nato nel 1833 

 da rispettabile famiglia piemontese ; fece gli studi universitari in Pisa, ove 

 ottenne il dottorato in scienze naturali, e di nuovo vi si laureò il 18 novem- 

 bre 1858 a Torino. Subito dopo incominciò la carriera dell' insegnamento 

 nel R. Collegio di S. Francesco di quest' ultima città; passando successiva- 

 mente nei Licei e scuole militari di Casale, Napoli, Modena e Firenze, fu 

 dovunque stimato come maestro dotto e chiaro, amato per carattere onesto e 

 modestissimo. La sua dissertazione di laurea a Torino ebbe per titolo l'Or- 

 gano elettrico della torpedine; nei gabinetti di Napoli, Modena e 

 Firenze ha compiuto parecchi interessanti lavori, principalmente sugli Aca- 

 lefi del Mediterraneo, quindi sui Lib ellulidi del Modenese, della 

 Toscana e di Costantinopoli, e le sue Lezioni compendiate di fisica 

 terrestre sono pure assai pregevoli. 



Pavia. P. Pavesi. 



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