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lected in Benguela by Mr. J. J. Monteiro." This was followed by 

 a communication from Mr. J. J. Monteiro himself, containing notes 

 on these and other specimens of birds which he had obtained in the 

 littoral region of Benguela, in the years 1862-1863. — Mr. Sclater 

 communicated a series of notes by the late Mr. W. Osburn on the 

 CMroptera of Jamaica, giving the observations made by that gen- 

 tleman on twelve species of this order of Mammals met with during 

 his residence in that island. Mr. Sclater also exhibited the original 

 specimen of Galago monteiri described by Mr. Bartlett in 1862 from 

 the living animal, and stated that he considered it to be scarcely 

 more than a pale variety of Galago crassicaitdata. — Mr. O. A. L. 

 Morch, of Copenhagen, communicated some supplementary notes 

 to his review of the family Vermetidce which had been published in 

 the Society's Proceedings for 1861 and 1862.— The Secretary called 

 attention to the specimen of the Pronghorned Antelope of America 

 {Antilocapra americana) just added to the Society's collection, being 

 the first instance of this animal having reached Eiu'ope alive. — 

 Two papers were read by Mr. G. French Angas, Corr. Memb. The 

 first of these was entitled *' Descriptions of four new species of 

 Marine Shells from South Australia." Mr. Angas' second paper 

 was a general article on the Marine Molluscan Pauna of South Aus- 

 tralia, in which a list of all the species at present known to inhabit 

 the coast of that country was given, together with remarks on their 

 localities and distribution. 



Fehruary Uth, 1865. 

 A letter was read from Dr. H. Burmeister, of Buenos Ayres, 

 Por. Memb., describing a new species of Whale, proposed to be called 

 Balcenoptera pataclionica, founded on a skeleton in the museum of 

 Buenos Ayres, and giving particulars as to specimens of certain 

 other Cetacea in the same museum. — Dr. A. Griinther gave an ac- 

 count of the present state of his researches into the British species 

 of Salmonoid fishes, which he had undertaken whilst engaged 

 in preparing the catalogue of the specimens of this family in the 

 collection of the British Museum. Dr. Giinther stated that 

 the genus Salmo was essentially an arctic group, inhabiting the 

 northern portions of both hemispheres, and becoming more abun- 

 dant in species upon receding from sub-tropical into temperate 

 latitudes. Dr. Giinther was disposed to believe that the species of 



