A specimen of a marine snake {Pelamys Ucolor) presented to the 

 Museum by the Rev. William White, Wesleyan Missionary to the 

 New Zealand Assoclation, and which, -vvith several others, had been 

 picked up dead upon the beach on the \vest coast of that country, 

 was upon the table ; also another portion of the birds collected by 

 Charles Darwin, Esq., to \vluch Mr. Gould in continuatiou drew the 

 attention of the Members. 



