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lian Batrachians. By J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. The coitus of indi- 

 viduals belonging to about ten (out of about twenty-four) species occurring in 

 the County of Cumberland has been observed, and the ova identified. With 

 the exception of the two species of Pseudophryne which oviposit under stones, 

 &c., near pools, all these deposit their ova in water in the ordinary manner; 

 and from such evidence as has so far been obtained it will probably be found 

 that with a possible exception or two a similar statement may be made about 

 the others. The ovipositing periods are not so brief nor so well marked as 

 e. g. in the case of the European species oï Rana, and are largely determined 

 by the rainfall, itself irregular ; also as there are seasonal differences in the 

 breeding times of difi'erent species, by taking two or three years' observations 

 together one may meet with frog-spawn'^ in every month of the year. — Mr. 

 Deane exhibited on behalf of Mr. C. T. Musson of Narrabri a collection 

 of Queensland Mosses, and the leg of a pigeon to which a ball of earth, 

 weighing when dry nine grains, was found adhering. Mr. Musson also com- 

 municated some details , which will appear in full in the Proceedings, re- 

 specting the pigeon above referred to as a possible means of dispersion of 

 seeds, and he records a case in which a land snail [Vitrina sp.) was found 

 adhering to the elytron of a beetle whereby its migration beyond its normal 

 habitat was to a limited extent rendered possible. 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Moskau. Prof. Geheimrath Anat. P. Bogdanoff , Director des Zoolog. 

 Museum. 

 Prof, extraord. : A. A. Tichomiroff, M. A. Mensbier, 

 N. J. Zograff. 

 Conservator des Zool. Mus. : N. M. Kulaginn. 

 Assistenten am Zool. Mus. : A. N. Kortschagin , G. A. 



Koschewnikoff. 

 Laborant der vergi. Anatomie: N. A. Iwanzoff. 

 Prof, der Histologie: A. J. B ab u e hin. 

 Prosector: J. F. Ogneff. 

 Assistenten: S. F. Stein, A. J. Woitoff. 

 Prof. der Physiologie: F. P. Schereme tie wsky. 

 Prosector: L. Z. Morochowetz, 

 Assistent: ., Popoff. 

 Im zoolog. Garten arbeiten: N. M. Kulaginn und D. M. 

 Rossinskii. 



Necrolog. 



Am 31. Mai starb in Stolp in Pommern Eugen Ferdinand v. Homeye v , 

 bekannt als ausgezeichneter Ornitholog und Besitzer einer der größten Samm- 

 lungen europäischer Vögel. Er war am 11. November 1SÜ9 in Heerdin, 

 Kreis Anklam, geboren. 



Druck Ton Breittcopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



