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 li. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



Zoological Society of London. 



2nd June, 1896. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May, and 

 called particular attention to a Ked-naped Fruit-Bat [Pter opus funer eu^) ^ 

 from Australia, acquired by purchase and new to the Society's list; to four 

 examples of a Tortoise belonging to the group of Gigantic Tortoises (appa- 

 rently Testudo Dandini) from the Aldabra Islands , deposited by the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, F.Z.S.; and to two Rüppell's Vultures [Gyps Rueppelli] 

 from Egypt, received in exchange from the Zoological Gardens, Cairo. — 

 Mr. Sclater exhibited the skin of an African Monkey of the genus Cerco- 

 pithecus ^ originally received alive from Mombasa, which he believed to be 

 referable to Stairs's Monkey (C. Stairsi). — Mr. Sclater also exhibited a 

 series of water-colour drawings of African Antelopes by Mr. Caldwell , and 

 a photograph of the Gorilla now living in the Society's Gardens, by Mr. 

 Henry Scherren, F.Z.S. — A communication was read from Mr. Henry J. 

 Elwes, F.Z.S. , and Mr. Edwards, containing a revision of the European 

 and Asiatic Butterflies of the Family Hesperiidae. The species treated of in 

 this paper were about 450 in number and were divided into about 100 ge- 

 nera. — Mr. Charles Davies Sherborn, F.Z.S., gave an explanation of the 

 plan he had adopted in preparing his »Index Generum et Specierum Ani- 

 malium«. Mr. Sherborn stated that the absence of any reliable lists of the 

 species of particular genera had led him to commence the compilation of 

 an »Index Generum et Specierum Animalium« in 1890. Since that time 

 130,000 generic and specific names had been recorded in a manuscript which 

 was stored at the British Museum (Natural History). Mr. Sherborn explained 

 in detail the method and plan adopted for the compilation of the work. — 

 Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., read a paper on the dentition of Snakes, and 

 added remarks on the evolution of the poison-fangs in this order of Reptiles. 

 — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



ni. Personal-Notizen. 



Moskau. An Stelle des verstorbenen Professors Bogdanow ist Prof. 

 Old. A. A. Tichomirow zum Director des zoologischen Museums der Uni- 

 versität ernannt worden. 



Necrolog. 



Am 14. Juni ertrank beim Baden bei Dover Dr. Henry Bargman Pol- 

 lard. Er war 1869 geboren, hatte in Oxford studiert, in Freiburg i. Br. und 

 in Neapel selbständig zu untersuchen begonnen und mehrere tüchtige Ar- 

 beiten geliefert. 



Am 17. Juni starb auf seiner Besitzung Lilford Hall bei Oundle in 

 Northamptonshire Thomas Lyttleton Powys, vierter Lord Lilford, 63 Jahre 

 alt. Er war Präsident der British Ornithologists' Union und als ausgezeich- 

 neter Ornitholog bekannt. 



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