448 THE NATTJEAL HISTOEY EEVIEW. 



card.— A letter was read from Mr. W. Alford Lloyd, describing the 

 new Aquarium House lately erected in the Zoological Society's 

 Gardens at Hamburgh, and the improved system of management of 

 Aquaria pursued in that establishment.— Two communications were 

 read from Dr. ^Y. Peters, For. Mem. The first of these related to 

 the species of Mammals collected by Dr. Welwitsch during his recent 

 travels in Angola. The second consisted of some notes on the 

 Indian Eodent, described by Mr. Blyth as Flatacanthomys lasiurm, 

 which, Dr. Peters was of opinion, had nothing to do with the Dormice 

 (Myoxin^), but appertained strictly to the Murine family, being 

 nearly allied in many respects to FMceomys and Meriones. — A com- 

 munication was read from Dr. J. V. Barboza du Socage, Por. Memb., 

 containing notes on some rare and little known Mammals from 

 Angola, of which specimens had lately been received by the Na- 

 tional Museum of Lisbon.— A letter was also read from Mr. E. L. 

 Layard, Cape Town, Corresponding Member, describing a new 

 species of Zebra, discovered by Mr. James Chapman in the interior 

 of South- Western Africa, about 200 miles from Walwich Bay, which 

 Mr. Layard proposed to call Uquus Chapmanni. — Dr. J. E. Gray 

 made some further observations on the Whale, which he had lately 

 proposed to name Iladeayius austrcdiensis. — A paper was read by 

 Messrs. A. E. Wallace and H. Adams on the Land Shells, collected 

 by Mr. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago. This list, which enu- 

 merated 125 species, 50 of which had been first obtained by Mr. Wal- 

 lace, had been drawn up principally with a view of recording the exact 

 localities of each species, and thus furnishing materials towards a 

 more accurate knowledge of their geographical distribution. 



April 2Qth, 1865. 



Anniversary Meeting. — The Eight Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart., 

 President, in the chair. The usual preliminaries having been trans- 

 acted, the report of the Auditors was read and adopted by the 

 meeting. The report of the Council was then read by Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater, P.E.S., the Secretary of the Society. It stated that the 

 number of Pellows,Pellows-elect, and annual subscribers of the Society 

 on that day, amounted to 1955, showing an increase of 201 members 

 since the last anniversary. During the year 1864 no less than 264 

 new Pellows and annual subscribers had been elected, a greater 

 number than had joined the Society in any one single year 

 for the previous twenty-eight years. Seventeen corresponding 



