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cies, being at present engaged in a correspondence on the subject for the 
purpose of acquiring additional information.* 
Vov. 30.—At a special meeting, held for the purpose of determining 
as to the expediency of discontinuing the meetings, it was 
Resolved unanimously, 
That the Meetings of this Club be discontinued. 
It was subsequently 
Resolved unanimously, 
That the Thanks of the Club are due to the Council of the Linnean 
Society of London for the use of the Society’s Rooms, in which the 
members have passed many happy evenings during the last six years, in 
promoting in one of its most extensive departments, the object for which 
the Society was instituted. 
The Chairman, N. A. Vigors, Esq., delivered an Address on the pro- 
gress of Zoology in Great Britain during the past year, and on the 
present state and prospects of the science, which was ordered to be 
printed for distribution among the members of the Linnean Society. 
* Mr. Yarrell, having ‘since obtained four specimens in addition to those he 
previously possessed, has more recently entered fully into the differences exist- 
ing between the Hooper and the new species of Swan noticed above, for which 
he has proposed, ina Paper read before the Linnean Society, the name of Cygnus 
Bewickii, The most marked distinctions are in the anatomical structure of the 
sternum, and of the trachea and its appendages. The external distinctions are 
indicated by the following specific churacters of the allied species, which are 
given in the paper alluded to:— 
Cygnus ferus. Cygn. rostro semicylindrico atro basi lateribusque (his ultra 
nares) flavis; corpore albo; rectricibus 20; pedibus nigris. 
Cygnus Bewickii. Cygn. rostro semicylindrico atro, basi aurantiac4 ; corpore 
albo; rectricibus 18; pedibus nigris. 
