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geworfen werden kann. Durch das Zuklappen der Vorderwand wird 

 jedes Verrücken der Präparate und Einlagen gänzlich verhütet. Zwei 

 oder mehr solche Klapp-Etuis können dann in ein gemeinsames Etui 

 eingeschoben werden, wodurch das Aufklappen derselben verhütet 

 wird. — Diese Etuis haben sich mir vollkommen bewährt, sie sind 

 ausnehmend billig und verwahren die Präparate aufs Beste. 



2. Zoological Society of London, 



14th January, 1879. — Before proceeding to the usual business the 

 Chairman called attention to the great loss which the Society and Zoological 

 Science had sustained by the recent death of their late President, the Mar- 

 quis of Tweeddale, F. R. S. — The Secretary read a report on the addi- 

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

 December, 1878, and called special attention to a collection of Lemurs 

 brought to England by Mr. George A. Shaw from the province of Betsileo, 

 in Central Madagascar and acquired by the Society partly by purchase and 

 partly by presentation, and to a female Punjaub Wild Sheep j Ovis cycloceros) , 

 presented by Col. W. R. Alexander, having been obtained in the hüls bet- 

 ween Upper Sind and Beloochistan. — Dr. Traquair, F.R. S.E., ex- 

 hibited a specimen of the Hackled Pigeon [Alectoroenas nitidissima) recognized, 

 last September in the Museum of Science and Art in Edinburgh, by Professor 

 Newton, F.R. S., M.A., who made some remarks on the species shewing 

 (1) that it was peculiar to Mauritius, (2) that it is now wholly extinct, and 

 (3) that only three specimens of it are known to have been preserved. — 

 The Secretary read an extract from a letter received from Commander 

 Hoskins, R.N., of H. M. S. »Wolverine«, on the subject of the range of 

 the Mooruk , stating that no traces of the existence of this bird could be 

 found in New Ireland. — An extract was read from a letter addressed to the 

 Secretary by the Rev. George Brown giving additional particulars on the 

 same subject. — The Secretary read an extract from a letter addressed to 

 him by Mr. R. Trimen, F. Z. S., of Cape Town, on the subject of the true 

 locality of the Black Spurwinged Goose [Plectropterus niger), which he had 

 ascertained had been brought to Cape Town from Zanzibar. — A communi- 

 cation was read from Dr. Morrison Watson and Dr. Alfred H. Young on 

 the Anatomy of the Spotted Hyena [Hyaena crocuta) . — A communication 

 was read from Mr. A. D. Bartlett giving an account of the habits and 

 changes of plumage of Humboldt's Penguin, as observed in a specimen which 

 had been recently living in the Society's Gardens. — A communication was 

 read from Dr. O. Finsch, C.M.Z.S., containing an account of a collection 

 of Birds made by Mr. Huebner, on Duke of York Island and New Britain. 

 — A communication was read from Mr. Edward J. Miers, F. Z.S., de- 

 scribing a collection of Crustacea, made by Capt. H. C. St. John, R.N., in 

 the Corean and Japanese Seas. The present paper related to the Podophthal- 

 mia of the collection, of which groups 26 species were described as appa- 

 rently new to science. — A communication was read from Count T. Sal- 

 v ad ori, C. M.Z.S., containing critical remarks on Mr. Elliot's paper on 

 the Fruit- pigeons of the genus Ptilopus, lately pubHshed in the Society's 

 Proceedings. — A communication was read from the late Marquis of 



