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have further to report that by deed of 5th December, 1890, Sir William 

 Macie ay has transferred to the Society the Linnean Hall, with the land on 

 which it stands having a frontage of 179 feet to Bay Street by a depth of 

 120 feet; and that by deed of the same date Sir William has also trans- 

 ferred to the Society by way of endowment a mortgage of £ 14,000 bearing 

 interest at the rate of sé 5 per cent, per annum. The deeds by which these 

 transfers have been effected are now in my hands.« — Mr. Froggatt exhi- 

 bited two specimens of a grasshopper (Fam. Gryllidae), taken at Double Bay, 

 which frequents the flowers of Eucalyptus corymbosa in order to capture the 

 common honey bees [Apis mellifica) visiting the blossoms. — Also, a few 

 specimens of Hymenoptera received from the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., 

 who captured them on the snow at altitudes of from 5,000 to 6,100 feet, 

 during his trip to the Australian Alps, Victoria, last November. — Mr. 

 Musson exhibited on behalf of Mr. Mo s eie y of Narrabri, an example of 

 the freckled duck , Anas naevosa, Gould, obtained at Narran , near Angle- 

 dool, not far from the Queensland border, early in December last. — The 

 Rev. R. Collie showed an interesting collection of sponges from Wollon- 

 gong, and a fine specimen of Gorgonia from Thursday Island. 



3. Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft. 

 Die diesjährige Versammlung findet 



am 2. bis 4. April 

 zu Leipzig 



im zoologischen Institut unter dem Vorsitze des Herrn Geheimrath 

 L eue kart statt. 



Programm. 



Am 2., 3. und 4. April von 9 Uhr Morgens an: Sitzungen im großen 



Hörsaal des Zoologischen Instituts. 

 Am 2. und 4. April (event, auch am 3.) von 3 Uhr Nachmittags an: 



Demonstrationen im Laboratorium des Zoologischen Instituts. 

 Am Freitag den 3. April 4 Uhr Nachmittags: gemeinschaftliches 



Mittagessen in Kraft's Hôtel de Prusse, woselbst auch jeden 



Abend zwanglose Vereinigung bei einem Glase Bier stattfinden 



wird. 



Angemeldete Vorträge. 



1. Dr. G. B randes (Halle a. S.) : Eine neue Methode der Aufstellung 



von Alkoholpräparaten. 



2. Dr. O. Bütschli (Heidelberg): Referat über die Frage nach 



dem Bau des Protoplasmas. 



3. Dr. H. Henking (Göttingen): Über plasmatische Strahlungen. 



4. Dr. R. Leuckart (Leipzig): 



a. über Biüiarzia, 



b. über einen ectoparasitisch sich einkapselnden Nematoden, 



c. über Taenia madagascariensis . 



