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ZooLoGicaL Soctery or Lonpon. 
Mr. St. George Mivart has, during the past quarter, communi- 
cated two memoirs to the Society, on the Anatomy of Quadrumana 
—a subject in which he has already been working for some time. 
One is on the dentition, and other points of structure, in the rare 
Lemurine animai Microrhynchus laniger, of Madagascar ; the other 
is a joint paper with Dr. Murie (the prosector to the Society), “ On 
the Anatomy of the Lemuroidea,” principally relating to the myology 
of these animals. 
The appointment of a prosector, and the building of a well- 
arranged dissecting-room in the Society’s gardens, have, no doubt, 
done much to assist the study of comparative anatomy. Besides 
the above papers we have, as a result of this lberal movement, 
during the past quarter, an excellent paper by Dr. Murie and Mr. 
St. George Mivart, “On the Anatomy of the Agouti (Dasyprocta 
cristata),” principally in reference to the myology of this animal. 
Among the papers relating to descriptive zoology are deserip- 
tions of three new monkeys, by Dr. Gray, Cercopithecus erythro- 
gaster, living in the menagerie; Nasua dorsalis, from South America; 
and Macacus inornatus, also living in the gardens. 
The Society has also lately obtained for its menagerie a rare 
monkey from Demerara, Pithecia leucocephala. Dr. Gray has also 
described a new Porcupine (Acanthion Grotet), specimens of which 
are in the Gardens and also in the British Museum; also a new 
Bat from Angola (Scotophilus Welwilchit), and a new Bush-bock 
(Cephalophus breviceps), as well as various mammals recently 
received from Port Albany, North Australia, amongst which were 
several species new to science. 
A large number of new and rare birds have also been noticed 
and described at the meetings of the Society by Mr. Sclater, Mr. 
Gould, Dr. Hartlaub, and others. Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited a 
drawing of the Dodo (Didus ineptus), supposed to be an original 
one, from which it appeared that the plumage of this remarkable 
bird was white. Mr. Sclater and Mr. Salvin have laid before the 
Society a catalogue of the birds collected by Mr. Edward Bartlett 
during his recent expedition up the river Ucayali, in Eastern Peru, 
with notes and descriptions of the new species. The total number 
of specimens contained in Mr. Bartlett’s collection was about 700, 
referable to 252 different species, of which twelve proved to be new 
to. science. 
Some valuable communications on Lepidoptera have been pre- 
sented to the Society by Mr. A. G. Butler ; and Mr. Flower at one 
meeting exhibited some insects captured in the Atlantic on board 
the ship ‘ Hotspur, about 300 miles from land. 
Amongst Mollusca, a list of species collected in Formosa, by 
Mr. Swinhoe, was furnished by Mr. H. Adams. 
