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Zum Schluß sei noch bemerkt, daß die Nothwendigkeit der Er- 

 richtung von lacustrischen Stationen immer mehr anerkannt wird, 

 und daß wir in nächster Zeit schon außer der für Berlin (am Müg- 

 gelsee) projectierten eine finnische (auf dem Forstinstitute Ewois), 

 eine österreichische (am Balaton-See) und eine italienische 

 Station dieser Art (an den Albaner Seen) erstehen sehen werden. Die 

 drei hierfür in Betracht kommenden Forscher sind Dr. O. Nordquist, 

 Dr. Eug. V. Daday und Prof. Vinciguerra. 



Plön, 5. October 1892. 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



15th November, 1892. — The Secretary read a report on the addi- 

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

 October 1892, and called special attention to a very fine male Ostrich 

 [Struthio camelus] presented by Her Majesty the Queen, and to a specimen 

 of what appeared to be a new and undescribed Monkey of the genus Cerco- 

 pithecris , obtained by Dr. Moloney at Ghindi, on the Lower Zambesi, for 

 which the name Cercopithecus Stairsi was proposed. Attention was also called 

 to the receipt of a series of specimens of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles, 

 brought by Mr. Frank Finn, F.Z.S., on his recent return from a zoological 

 expedition to Zanzibar, and received from several correspondents of the Society 

 at Zanzibar and Mombasa. — The Secretary exhibited (on behalf of Mr. 

 T. Ground) a specimen of the Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper [Tringa acuminata) 

 killed in Norfolk. — Mr. G. A. B oui eng er, F.Z.S., read a paper describ- 

 ing the remains of an extinct gigantic Tortoise from Madagascar [Testudo 

 Grandidieri^ Vaili.) , based on specimens obtained in caves in Southwest 

 Madagascar by Mr. Last^ and transmitted to the British Museum. The spe- 

 cies was stated to be most nearly allied to Testudo giganiea of the Aldabra 

 Islands. — Mr. W. Bateson and Mr. H. H. Brindley read a paper giv- 

 ing the statistical results of measurements of the horns of certain beetles and 

 of the forcipes of the male Earwig. It appeared that in some of these cases 

 the males form two groups, »high« and »low«; the moderately high and the 

 moderately low being more frequent than the mean form in the same loca- 

 lity. It was pointed out that this result was not consistent with the hypo- 

 thesis of fortuitous Variation about one mean form. — A communication 

 was read from Mr. O. Thomas containing the description of a new Monkey 

 of the genus Semnopithecns from Northern Borneo, which he proposed to call 

 S. Everetti, after Mr. A. Everett, its discoverer. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger 

 read a description of a Blennioid fish from Kamtschatka belonging to a new 

 generic form, and proposed to be called Blenniophdium Petropauli. The spe- 

 cimen had been obtained in the harbour of Petropaulovski by Sir George 

 Baden Powell, M. P., in September 1891. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



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