PROCEEDINGS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 8, 1833. 



Joseph Sabine, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Tlic Chainiian opened the business of the Meeting by referring 

 to the By-laws under which it was held, and stated theanticipation 

 of the Council that the General Meetings for the transaction of 

 Scientific Business, of whicli the present was the first, would be 

 productive of great advantage to science. He adverted to the 

 known abilities and industry of many of the Members of the So- 

 ciety, who have contributed to the Froceedings of the Committee 

 of Science and Correspondence, (the meetings of which have now 

 ceased,) and dvvelt on the certainty of much important information 

 being communicated by their continued labonrs. There were also 

 other Members equally in possession of facts of interest, and equally 

 capable of imparting the knovvledge of them, to whom the Sociely 

 might look with confidence for contributions. He trusted that these 

 experienced zoologists would be continually excited to fresh dis- 

 coveries, by the acquisition of additional subjects of investigation 

 in the Society's Menagerie and Museum, and that others would 

 be stimulated by their example to pursne similar inquiries with 

 equal zeal, and with all the increascd facilities for successful study 

 aftbrded by more extensive collections. The result of such researches 

 would, he hoped, be freely brought before the Society at the Meet- 

 ings which had now commenced, and wluch would thereby be ren- 

 dered at once interesting to the Members, and important to the ad- 

 vancement of knovvledge. 



The Secretary then read the By-laws referred to in the Chairraan's 

 address. 



The Vice-Secretary called the attentionofthe Meeting to astuffed 

 specimen of the M'horr Antelope, vvhich was exhibited on the tabic. 

 He remarked that it belonged to that form of the genus to which the 

 name of Antilope Dama has been given, on account of the horns 

 being curved forwards ; a character mentioned by Pliny as belonging 

 to the animal which he designated Dama, and v/liich was also of 

 tfansmarine origin. By ret'erences, however, to other classical 

 authors, Mr. Bennett was induced to infer that the šame name was 

 used by them to designate another animal vvhich was subservient to 

 the chase in Europe, and not improbably the Falloiv Deer. 



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