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 III. Mittheihmgen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of London. 



2u(i j)ec. 1886. — Dr. Francis Day read a paper on the Lochleven 

 Trout, which is the form that has been utilized by Sir James Haitian d at 

 Howietown, where the elevation is similar to that of their original home from 

 which Howietown is about 25 miles distant. These fish are known by their 

 numerous coecal appendages, and up to their fourth or fifth year they are of 

 a silvery grey with black but no red spots ; subsequently they become of a 

 golden purple, with numerous black and red spots. Undergrown ones take 

 on the colour of the burn-trout. Remove these fish to a new locality and they 

 assume the form and color of the indigenous trout. In 1883 a Salmon Parr 

 and Lochleven Trout were crossed and the young have assumed the red adi- 

 pose dorsal fin, and white edged margins to the dorsal and ventral, also the 

 orange edges to both sides of the caudal, all colours found in the brook trout 

 but not in the Salmon or Lochleven Trout. The maxilla in this form not 

 extending to behind the eye, the absence of a knob on the lower jaw, in old 

 breeding males, and the difference in the fins from those of Salmo fario were 

 shown to have been erroneous statements. — A communication, on a new 

 species of Brachyonckus from the Mergui Archipelago by Mr. Henry W. 

 Bate s was read by the Secretary. The beetle in question is said to be inter- 

 mediate between B. lœvipennis and B. sublœvis, both known only from Siam 

 and Cochin-China. — J. Murie. 



IV. Personal-Notizen. 



Deutsche Universitäten: 14. Leipzig. 



Zoologisches Institut. 



Director: Prof. ord. Dr. Rud. Leuckart. 



Assistenten: Rich. Schmidtlein und Dr. Arth. Tiooß. 

 Prof, extraord. d. vergi. Anat. Dr. J. Victor Car us. 

 Prof, extraord. d. Zool. Dr. Paul Fra is se. 

 Prof, extraord. d. Zool. Dr. Will. Marshall. 



Palaeontologie. 

 Director d. mineral. -geolog. Museums: Prof. ord. Dr. F. Zirkel. 

 Prof. ord. hon. Dr. Hrm. Credner. 

 Prof, extraord- sc. veterin. Dr. F. A. Zürn. 



15. Marburg. 



Zoologisches u. vergi, anatom. Institut. 

 Director: Prof. ord. Dr. med. et phil. Rich. Greeff. 



Assistent: Dr. phil. H. Brockmeier. 



Geologisch-palaeontologischeslnstitut. 

 Director: Prof. ord. Dr. phil. F. H. E. Kayser. 



Assistent : Dr. phil. D e n k m a n n. 



