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Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons. According to the 

 author's views the Leonuridce were divisable into four natural sub- 

 families, the IndrisincB, Lemurince, Nycticehince, and Galaginince. — 

 A Communication was read from Dr. J. C. Cox, of Sydney, New 

 South "Wales, giving the descriptions of four new species of Australian 

 Land Shells, lately received from Port Clarence. — Mr. P. L. Sclater 

 pointed out the characters of some new species of Birds discovered in 

 Brazil by the late Dr. John batterer, of which he had lately obtained 

 duplicate specimens from the Imperial Collection of Vienna. The 

 most noticeable of these was a new species of the genus Granatellus, 

 proposed to be called O. pehelnii, and a new Tanager, the Tanagra 

 olivina of ISTatterer's MS. — A Communication was read from Dr. L. 

 Pfeiffer describing seven new species of Laud Shells from the 

 Cumingian collection. — Dr. J. E. Gray communicated a notice of the 

 atlas and cervical vertebrae of a Eight "Whale in the Sydney Museum 

 New South "Wales, which appeared to indicate the existence of a new 

 form of this group distinguished by the complete separation of the 

 atlas from the other vertebrae, and by other characters. Dr. Gray 

 proposed for this "Whale the name of Macleayius australiensis. 



December ISth, 1864. 



Professor Owen, P.E.S., read a further Memoir on Dinornis, 

 being the ninth of a Series of Contributions to the Society's " Trans- 

 actions" on this subject. The present section contained the 

 description of the skull, atlas, and scapulo-coracoid bone of Dinornis 

 rohustus Owen. It was founded partly on materials submitted to his 

 examination by Dr. D. S. Price, consisting of a mutilated cranium, 

 and other bones, which had been obtained from the bottom of a 

 crevice, about 50 feet deep, in a limestone rock, situated a few miles 

 south of Timarn, in the Middle Island of New Zealand, and partly 

 on a skull found with a skeleton, almost entire, in the valley of 

 Manuherikia, Otago. The skeleton last referred to had been disin- 

 terred by gold-miners from one of the large basins of ancient tertiary 

 date, which characterise the auriferous region of the interior of the 

 province of Otago, and had been transmitted to the Museum of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society at York, the Council of which had 

 placed it at Professor Owen's disposition for the purpose of descrip- 

 tion. — Mr. Gould exhibited and described the egg of 'Parra gallinacea, 

 from Eastern Australia, of which he had lately received two speci- 

 mens from ]Mi\ Hills, to whom they had been forwarded by his 



