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fact which explains their sudden appearance in swarms after heavy rain in 

 places which had been previously quite dry. No trace of external gills have 

 been detected. A fuller account is in course of preparation. — Mr. A. Sid- 

 ney Ollif f exhibited the Coleoptera belonging to the groups Clavicornia and 

 Rkynchophora, collected by Mr. Edward Whymper during his ascent of 

 Chimborazo, Pichincha, and other mountains in Ecuador. The species were 

 mostly small and dull coloured, but were of great interest on account of 

 their having been obtained at elevations varying from 1 400 to 16 000 feet. 

 They will be fully described in the Natural History Appendix to Mr. Whym- 

 per's forthcoming work. — Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., Curator of the 

 Australian Museum, exhibited (i) a very large specimen of a sea urchin. 

 Tripneustes atigulosus, from the New South Wales Coast. (2) An Albino Tui 

 or »Parson bird« from New Zealand Prosthemader a Novae- Zelandiae, and 

 1 3), an Albino Ground Parrot, Psephotus haematoììotus , which latter bird had 

 been presented to the Museum by Mr. McCooey of Dubbo. This bird was 

 obtained near Warren. — Mr. Ramsay also read a letter from Sir Richard 

 Owen respecting a new species of Thylacoleo, the bones of which had been 

 recently discovered in the Wellington Caves. — Mr. Macleay exhibited four 

 immature specimens of Holostoma (datum, the Distoma alatimi of Rudolphi, 

 from a very young puppy. He said that this is believed to be the only Tre- 

 matode Worm which infests Dogs, but is much more common in the wild 

 species, as the Wolf and Fox, than in the domestic animal. Its History is 

 unknown. — Mr. Ratte made a note of some corrections required in Plate 9, 

 Vol. X, of the Society's Proceedings, containing figures of Ptychomphalus. 

 — Dr. Cox made some observations on the migrations of the Maray, the 

 fish known as the »Australian Pilchard« and »Picton Bloater«, Clvpea sagax, 

 and called attention to the importance of ascertaining the time and place of 

 spawning. 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Lausanne. An Stelle von Prof. Du Plessis ist Dr. Henri Blanc 

 zum Professor der Zoologie an der naturwissenschaftlichen Facultät der 

 Académie in Lausanne ernannt worden. 



Necrolog. 



Am 14. Mai starb in Montpellier Dr. Ernest Dubrueil, 56 Jahre alt, 

 Sohn des Anatomen Dubrueil. Zum Juristen erzogen und im Begrifi'e in 

 den Verwaltungsdienst einzutreten, erlitt er im Alter von 25 Jahren eine 

 Hemiplegie , welche ihn veranlaßte , seine Laufbahn aufzugeben und sich 

 seinen früheren Nebenbeschäftigungen ausschließlich zu widmen. Anato- 

 mische und faunistische Arbeiten über die Mollusken Süd-Frankreichs 

 machten ihn weiteren Kreisen bekannt. Im Juni 1S72 erschien das erste 

 Heft der von ihm gegründeten und bis ISSI redigirten Revue des Sciences 

 Naturelles, eine Sammlung werthvoller Mittheilungen vorwiegend naturge- 

 schichtlichen und vergleichend anatomischen Inhalts, Avelche seit jenem 

 Jahre von Professor A. Sabatier weiter geführt wird. 



Am 25. Juli starb in Haarlem Dr. H. Weyenbergh, Professor der 

 Zoologie in Cordova, im Alter von 42 Jahren. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



