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4. Zoological Society, (Hanover Square). 



JS^ovember Sth, 1864. 



The Secretary announced to the meeting the Head Keeper's safe 

 return from Calcutta in July last ^ith a valuable collection of 

 animals, brought together for the Society by the Baboo Kajendra 

 Mullick, Mr. A. G-rote, Dr. John Squire, and Mr. W. Dunn, amoDgst 

 wliich were a pair of Ehiuoceroses and several species of Birds new 

 to the collection. The Secretary also called the attention of the 

 meeting to several interesting additions to the Society's Menagerie. 

 —The Secretary exhibited a collection of Birds* Eggs made in India 

 and presented to the Society by Lieut. E. C. Beavan. — Mr. Gould 

 exhibited a specimen of the Emheriza pusilla of Pallas, which had 

 been lately captured in a clap-net near Brighton, being the first 

 instance of its occurrence in the British Islands, also a specimen of 

 the Anthus campestris of the Continent, caught in the same locality. 

 — The Eev. H. B. Tristram, Corresponding Member, exhibited a pair 

 of Sanderlings from Grimsey Island, Iceland, and three Eggs, sup- 

 posed to be those of that Bird, received at the same time. — A Letter 

 was read from Dr. W. Peters, Eoreign Member, in reference to some 

 remarks made by Dr. G-ray, in a paper recently published in the 

 Society's proceedings. — Professor Huxley read a memoir on the 

 structure of the skull of Man, the Goriilla, the Chimpanzee, and the 

 Orang-Utan, during the period of the first dentition. Professor 

 Huxley's deductions were based upon materials contained in the 

 British Museum, the E-oyal College of Surgeons, and in particular 

 upon the original specimen of Tyson's " Pigmy,'^ which had been 

 submitted to his examination by the Directors of the Museum at 

 Cheltenham. — The Eev. H. B. Tristram read a Eeport on the Birds 

 collected during his recent expedition in Palestine. Mr. Tristram 

 enumerated 322 species as having been ascertained to occur in that 

 country, of which twenty-seven, so far as our present knowledge 

 extended were peculiar to Palestine, and the districts immediately 

 adjacent. Nine of these were now described for the first time, and 

 several others had not been previously brought to England. — Mr. "W. 

 H. Eiower read some Notes on the skeletons of the BalcenidcBy as 

 observed by him during a recent visit to the principal Museums of 

 Holland and Belgium. Mr. Eiower also characterised a new species 

 of Grampus, from Tasmania, under the name of Orca meridionalis. — 

 Mr. A. Newton read a Paper, entitled, " Notes on the Zoology of 



