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III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Gesellschaften etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



18th March, 1879. — The Secretary called the attention of the 

 Meeting to the herd of Japanese Deer [Cervus sika, in the Park of Viscount 

 Powerscourt, at Powerscourt, in Ireland, now about 80 in number, and gave 

 an account of their introduction and history, from particulars supplied to 

 him by Lord Powerscourt. — A communication was read from Dr. G. 

 Hartlaub, containing the description of a new species of Barn Owl, from 

 the Island of Viti-levu, which he proposed to call Strix oustaleti. — Mr. Ed- 

 ward R. Alston read a paper »On Female Deer with Antlers«, showing 

 that these weapons are not unfrequently abnormally developed in fertile fe- 

 males of certain species of Capreolics and Cariacus, and giving reasons for 

 believing that in the ancestral forms of Deer, they were probably common 

 to both sexes. — Mr. S dater made remarks on some of the rarer Parrots 

 living in the Society's Gardens. The whole series of this group in the So- 

 ciety's collection was stated to consist of 170 individuals belonging to 98 

 species. — A communication was read from Prof. Gar rod, F.R. S., con- 

 taining notes on the visceral anatomy of the Tupaia of Burmah, Tupaia be- 

 lang eri. The caecum coli in this animal was stated to be small , whilst in a 

 specimen of T. tana it was ascertained to be wholly wanting. — A second 

 communication from Prof. Garrod, contained notes on the anatomy of 

 Helictis suhaurantiaca , in the course of which he shewed that the hippocampal 

 gyrus of the brain is partly superficial in this animal, which is not the case 

 in any other carnivorous animal yet recorded. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



IV. Personal-Notizen. 



Grossbritannien. — G) Irland. 1. Dublin. 



a University. 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. Professor fand Director of University Mu- 

 seum) : Dr. Alexander Macai ister. 

 Assistant : Thorn. C u 1 1 e n . 

 Anatomy (human). Professor: Dr. Benjamin Ma cD o w el. 

 University Anatomist: Dr. Thomas Little. 



Demonstrators: Dr. Edward Collins, Dr. Walter S m i t h , Dr. John 

 Finny and Dr. John Barton. 

 Institutes of Médecine (Physiology, Histology etc.). King's Professor: Dr. John 



Mallet Purser. 

 Geology and Palaeontology. Professor (and Director of the Geolog. Museum . 



Rev. Sam. Haughton. M.D. 

 Botany. Professor Edward Perceval Wright, M.D. 



b) Museum of Science and Arts. 

 General Director: Dr. Will. Edward Steele. 

 Director of the Natural History Museum: Dr. Alex. Carte. 



Assistants: Alex. Godman More and Will. Porseli Kir by. 



