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 durch den Generalredacteur abzuschließen, in welchem ein Termin 

 für die Ablieferung des Manuscriptes festgesetzt und die Bestimmung 

 enthalten sein muß, daß die Gesellschaft das Recht hat, die betreffende 

 Bearbeitung einem anderen Bearbeiter zuzuweisen , falls der zuerst 

 engagierte sein Manuscript nicht rechtzeitig abliefert oder andere ver- 

 einbarte Bedingungen nicht erfüllt. 



Der am 2. April d. J. zu Zürich verstorbene Privatdocent Herr 

 Dr. Karl Alfred Fiedler hat in seinen letzten Wünschen der Deut- 

 schen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 



ein Legat von hundert Franken 

 bestimmt. Dasselbe durch den Vater des Dahingegangenen , Herrn 

 Dr. Wilhelm Fiedler, Professor am Eidgenössischen Polytechnicum 

 zu Zürich, empfangen zu haben , bescheinigt hierdurch mit verbind- 

 lichstem Danke 



1. Mai 1894. der Schriftführer: 



Prof. J. W. S pen gel. 



Als Mitglieder sind der Gesellschaft beigetreten: Herr Dr. W. 

 Giesbrecht in Neapel; HerrCh. Wardell Stiles, Washington, D. C. 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



Ist May, 1894. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1894, 

 and called special attention to a valuable collection of Mammals presented 

 to the Society by Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.S., being part of the proceeds of 

 hisrecent expedition to Egypt. — Dr. Günther, F.R.S., exhibited and made 

 remarks on specimens of a South- African Hornbill [Buceros melanoleucus) and 

 of a portion of the tree in which the- nest was placed, and spoke of its mode 

 of nesting and of its extraordinary habits during that season. The specimens 

 had been transmitted to the British Museum by Dr. Schönland, of Grahams- 

 town. — Dr. H. E. Sauvage exhibited a vertebra of the earliest known 

 Snake from the gault of Portugal. — Mr. W. Bate son exhibited a large 

 number of specimens of Gonioctena variabilis , a Phytophagous Beetle from 

 Spain, in illustration of discontinuous variation in colour. — Prof. F. 

 Jeffrey Bell gave an account of the Echinoderms collected during the 

 voyage of H.M.S. »Penguin« and by H.M.S. «Egeria«, when surveying Mac- 

 clesfield Bank. The collection, which had been made by Mr. P. W. Bassett 

 Smith, Surgeon, R.N., with the cooperation of Mr. J. J. Walker, Chief 

 Engineer, was very extensive and contained examples of many new species, 

 some of which were of a very remarkable character. — Mr. Ernest W. Holt, 

 Naturalist to the Marine Biological Association , gave an account of the 

 results of his recent studies in teleostean morphology made at the Marine 

 Laboratory at Cleethorpe. Mr. Holt spoke first of some specimens of the 

 Birkeläuge [Malva abì/ssorum, Nilsson). The regular occurrence of this fish ofi" 

 the Faroe Islands and its occasional capture on the coast of Iceland were now 

 recorded for the first time, the species having been previously observed only 



