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pleteness, as to the leading characters of the order; and 

 the excellent health in which the animals are maintained 

 is fully proved by the fact, that no year has recently elapsed 

 without a certain number of births among the hardier 

 species. 



a. Sfepsirrhini. 9. Macaeus cynomolgns. 



1. Lemur nigrifrons. 



2. catta. 



3. albimanus. 



b. Platyrrhini. 

 4. Cebus apella. 

 5. fatuellus. 



6. Saimaris sciurea. 



c. Catarrhini. 



7. Silenus veter. 



8. Inuus pithecus. 22. Presbytes maurus. 



In this brief review of. a collection of living animals, 

 which, great as the exertions which have been made in 

 the sister establishments at Antwerp and Amsterdam 

 undoubtedly are, is still pre-eminent in variety and extent, 

 it has been impossible to give more than indications of the 

 riches which it contains. But some idea of them may 

 be formed from the fact that in 1847 it was composed of 

 little more than 900 individuals, many of them of the 

 most ordinary kind ; and that at the present time, after 

 eliminating year by year the least important and least in- 

 teresting species for the sole purpose of making I'oom for 

 the best, the numerical return has mounted to 1304. 



In acknowledging, as they do most cordially and grate- 

 fully, the great and increasing assistance received from the 

 numerous donors whose names are this day read to the 

 meeting, they do not wish to assume that the collection, 

 although so considerably advanced, is by any means com- 

 plete, or that there do not exist many serious lacunae which 

 it is their anxious desire to fill up. They desire to show 

 that progress has been made^ that the co-operation of their 

 supporters is appreciated, and that they on the part of the 

 Society are steadfastly determined to do justice to such 

 invaluable exertions on behalf of zoology as those for which 

 they have to record their thanks to the Governor General 

 of India, and to the gentlemen associated with him in 

 obtaining the Himalayan Pheasants ; to the Governor of 



