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miltocheilus , Reeve , are also described. — 3) Observations on Dendrolagus 

 lennettianus ^ De Vis. By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S. The author describes 

 and figures the species from material recently obtained from the Bloomfield 

 River, Queensland. He is of opinion that in respect of both external and 

 anatomical characters it is a well marked species. — Mr. Brazier exhibited 

 typical specimens of Bulimus miltocheilus, Reeve, and the varieties mentioned 

 in his paper, and of Trochus Adamsi, Brazier, and Irochus Povpineli, Montr., 

 from Isle Nou, New Caledonia. — Mr. He die y remarked that an inspection 

 of Calliostoma Poupineli, handed round by Mr. Brazier, and which he had not 

 before seen, proved that the Australian species certainly differs from the 

 New Caledonian. He failed, however , to distinguish specifically the species 

 re-named C. Adamsi by Mr. Brazier from that recently figured and described 

 by himself as C. purpureocinctum. — Mr. North exhibited specimens of 

 both sexes of the common Shoveller [Spatula clypeata, Brisson) and also of 

 the Long-tailed Cuckoo [Urodynamis taitensis , Sparrm.), brought from the 

 Gilbert Group by the Hon. C. R. Swayne ; and he communicated a note 

 respecting them. Both species were obtained on Big Makin Island. The 

 presence of the Shoveller there is, in the opinion of the natives to whom it 

 was a novelty, due to westerly gales which occasionally prevail. The Cuckoo, 

 the only land bird found on the group , has not previously been recorded 

 from so far north. — Mr. North also exhibited the head, crop, and gizzard 

 of a Wonga-wonga pigeon [Leucosarcia picata , Lath.), shot by Mr. H. J. 

 McCooey in a myrtle scrub at Upper Burragorang on the 21st instant. The 

 crop is absolutely crammed with dipterous larvae [Habromastix cinerascens , 

 Sk.), and undigested portions of them mixed with seeds, berries, and earth 

 appear also in the gizzard. As the dipterous larvae are known to be destruc- 

 tive to grass, the Wonga-wonga would appear to be deserving of conside- 

 ration. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Necrolog. 



Am 27. August starb in Dorpat Friedrich Bidder, emerit. Professor 

 der Physiologie , welcher durch seine Untersuchungen über die Harn- und 

 Geschlechtswerkzeuge der Amphibien (»Bidder'sches Organ«) auch als ver- 

 gleichender Anatom bekannt geworden ist. Er war 1810 in Landohm in 

 Curland geboren, von 1842 bis 1843 Professor der Anatomie und von 1843 

 ,bis 1869 Professor der Physiologie. 



Am 8. September starb in Berlin Hermann von Helmholtz, dem 

 seine Untersuchungen über das Nervensystem der wirbellosen Thiere und 

 die damit verknüpfte Entdeckung des Ursprungs der Nervenfasern von den 

 Ganglienzellen auch einen Ehrenplatz in der Geschichte der thierischen Mor- 

 phologie gesichert haben. 



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