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scribed. There are five molars on each side of both jaws, each with 
four tubercles, excepting the first; and the general character is 
nearly the same as in the Phalangers, to which this genus is very 
intimately allied. 
NovemsBer 27th.—Dr. Horsfield exhibited a large undetermined 
Macacus, which, together with some Squirrels and other mamma- 
lia, and an extensive assortment of birds, had been forwarded to the 
India House Museum, by Captain M’Cleland, from Upper Assan, 
where they had been collected by the gentleman sent by the East 
India Company to explore the tea districts. Mr. Ogilby next ex- 
hibited some specimens of a Pika ( Lagomys_) procured from a con- 
siderable altitude on the Himmalayas, the other species of this ge- 
nus, with the exception of that of North America, inhabiting the 
plains of Tartary and steppes of Siberia, where the hoards of dried 
grass piled over the entrance of their burrows supplied provender 
for the horses of those who traversed that bleak region in winter. 
Col. Sykes then exhibited forty-six exquisite coloured drawings of 
the fishes of the Deccan, no less than forty-two of which proved to 
represent new species: by far the greater number of them were re- 
ferable to the division Ma/acopterygii, so numerous also in the 
inland waters of this part of the world: there were a few, however, 
of what had hitherto been regarded as exclusively marine forms, 
allied to the Pipe-fish ( Syngnathus ) ; and a single species of Eel, 
beautifully marked and coloured. ‘The whole had been taken from 
recent specimens immediately after their capture, the gallant colonel 
having constantly employed an artist, under his immediate eye, 
when encamped on the plains of Indostan. 
DecemBer |]th.—Several communications were read from dif- 
ferent correspondents, announcing presents of various kinds to the 
menagerie and museum ; the principal of which were an enormous 
wasp’s nest, sent by the governor of Ceylon, and which had been 
constructed beneath the shelter of a talipot leaf, at the height of 
seventy feet from the ground ; and a collection of fossil tertiary 
shells from the vicinity of Turin. Dr. Horsfield described an im- 
mense number of birds which had been forwarded to the India 
House Museum, by Captain M’Cleland, from Assan, and exhibited 
coloured drawings of all the species. Some living European Tree- 
frogs ( Hyla viridis) also were exhibited, some of which had lived 
three years in this country. The greater portion of the evening 
was consumed in the reading of Dr. Horsfield’s communication ; and 
the immense wasp’s nest before mentioned, which was entirely si- 
milar in construction to the pendant nests of that genus common in 
some districts of Britain, lay on the table for inspection. 
