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Westwood had noticed but very few specimens at Chelsea and 
Hammersmith. 
The following Memoirs were read : — 
“ Observations on the Use of the Antennae of Insects.” By 
George Newport, Esq. 
“ Description of a Hybrid Smerintlius, with Remarks on Hy- 
bridism.” By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. 
Mr. Hope, in allusion to the latter of these papers, stated that 
it was a well-known fact that the offspring between the setter and 
pointer, allowed only to breed inter se, would in the course of three 
generations exhibit indications of a tendency towards the characters 
of the male parent. Mr. Yarrell also stated that in those hybrid 
fowls which he had examined he had found the male organs to be 
in excess, and the reverse to be the case with the female parts, the 
ovaries being very slightly developed. He also stated that it was 
a common practice amongst the breeders of cage birds, resulting 
from such excess of the male organs, to make use of one of these 
rank mules to bring forward slow hens, which would not pair, 
but which, when excited by the presence of the mule bird, was 
brought into the presence of the male bird. He had known the 
bullfinch cross with the canary, which w r ere the most widely apart 
of any birds hitherto known to produce hybrids. 
Anniversary Meeting, January 22nd, 1838. 
J. F. Stephens, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
In pursuance of the By-laws, the four following gentlemen were 
removed from the Council : 
W. S. Mac Leay, Esq. Samuel Hanson, Esq. 
W. W. Saunders, Esq. W. Sells, Esq. 
and the four following gentleman elected in their stead : 
R. J. Ashton, Esq. F. Walker, Esq. 
J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. C. Darwin, Esq. 
And the following gentlemen were elected officers for the en- 
suing year : 
President J. F. Stephens, Esq. 
Treasurer W. Yarrell, Esq. 
Secretary J. O. Westwood. 
Curators Messrs. Shuckard and Westwood. 
