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 III. Mîttheiluiigen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



2nd March, 1886. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February 

 1886, and called attention to the receipt of five examples of a large Batra- 

 chian of the Argentine Republic, there called »lEscuerzo« [Ceratophrys ornata)^ 

 presented by Dr. Frederick C. Strutt, and to a Mantled Buzzard [Leucopter- 

 nls palliata) from Brazil, purchased February 15th, being the first example 

 of this fine Bird of Prey received by the Society. — Mr. J. G. Milla is, 

 F.Z.S., exhibited an adult specimen of the Ivory Gull, shot by himself near 

 Thurso, in December 1885, also a young example of the same species, ob- 

 tained in Scotland in 1879. — Mr. T, D. A. Cockerell exhibited a living 

 Slug of the genus Parmacella, obtained at Tangier, and probably referable 

 to P. Valenciennesi. — A communication was read from Prof. R. Collett, 

 C.M.Z-S., containing an account of a new Pediculate fish from the sea off 

 Madeira belonging to the family Ceratiidae, which the author proposed to 

 call Linophryne lucifer. — Mr. P. L. Sclater read a note on the external 

 characters of the head of Rhinoceros simus as compared with those of R. bi- 

 cornis. — Mr. F. E. Bed dard read a note on the air-sacs of the Casso- 

 wary. — A second paper by Mr. Beddard treated of the syrinx and some 

 other points in the anatomy of certain forms of Caprimulgidae. — 

 P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of London. 



18th March 1886. — The only Zoological paper read was on the Madre- 

 poraria of the Mergui Archipelago by Prof. P. Martin Duncan. The large 

 Collections from Mergui were obtained personally by Dr. John Anderson 

 F.R.S. Curator of the Imperial Museum of India, Calcutta. The fauna 

 consists of eighty four species of which thirteen are new to science. The 

 new species are described and their variability commented upon. The alli- 

 ances of the fauna as a whole are with that of the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, 

 Chinese seas and of the great Islands to the east. The author makes fre- 

 qiient references to the coral alliances with a fauna described many years 

 ago from the Panama province, by Verrill. The fauna contains so many en- 

 crusting species of Corals that they give it a definite facies. In conclusion 

 the distinctness of the Tertiary coral faunas of India from that of Mergui is 

 announced. — J. Murie. 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Berlin. Dr. Karl Heider 'früher in Graz) hat sich an der Berliner 

 Universität für Zoologie habilitirt. 



Necrolog. 



Am 27. Febr. starb in Königsberg i/Pr. Professor Berthold Benecke, 

 43 Jahre alt, bekannt durch seine der Ichthyologie und Piscicultur gewid- 

 meten Arbeiten. 



Druck von ßreitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



