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the first internode of the plant. Experiments made with Castor 

 oil seeds and those of a species of Ipomcea, showed that by removing 

 the plumule after the expansion of the cotyledonary leaves, and 

 pinching off all succeeding buds as they formed, a considerable acces- 

 sion of growth in all dimensions was induced in the cotyledonary 

 leaves, and the descending axis became proportionately increased in 

 length and diameter. In the case of the Ipomcea the axis increased 

 as much as that of another specimen in which the ascending axis was 

 allowed to grow on till the flower-buds were formed. 



4. — Zoological Society, (11, Hanover Square.) 



January lOtJi, 1865. 



The Secretary called the attention of the meeting to the fine male 

 example of the Mantchurian Deer (Cervus mantchuricus) in the So- 

 ciety's Gardens, which had been received from Mr. Swinhoe, and 

 read an extract from a letter from Mr. Swinhoe, gi^'ing further 

 details respecting this animal. — Dr. Crisp made some observations 

 on the anatomy of the Water Ousel {Cinclus aquaticus), wdth refer- 

 ence to its mode of feeding, and to its power of remaining under" 

 water. Dr. Crisp also called attention to and exhibited specimens of 

 the OS penis of the Chimpanzee {Troglodytes oiiger), and of the 

 Orang {Simla satyrus), remarking that the existence of this bone in 

 these two species had not been before observed. — Mr. Francis Day 

 read the first part of a Memoir on the Fishes of Cochin, on the 

 Malabar coast of India. The present communication, which was 

 devoted to the Anc.anilioptergii, enumerated upwards of 120 species 

 of this order as having been collected or observed by the author in 

 Cochin, amongst which were several considered to be new to science. 

 Mr. Day's notes embraced many particulars as to the times of the 

 year at which the various species were met with on the coast of 

 Cochin, and as to the uses to which they were put by the natives. — 

 Mr. St. G-eorge Mivart read some Notes of the myology of the Green 

 Monkey {GercopitJiecus sahceus), in which the conditions presented by 

 some of those muscles which show such interesting variations in the 

 Order Primates, were recorded. — Dr. Gray gave a notice of an appa- 

 rently new form of whalebone Whale, proposed to be called JEscJirich- 

 tius roliistus, founded on a specimen stranded on the coast of Devon- 

 shire, in 186J , portions of the skeleton of which had been obtained 



