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 LXXX. Proceedings of Le aimed Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



''I "'HE meetings of this Society were resumed, for the session, 

 -*- on Tliursday, Nov. 20 ; when the Croonian Lecture, by 

 Sir E. Home, V.P.R.S., was read, illustrative of the subject of 

 muscular motion by the structure of the brain in man and va- 

 rious classes of animals, as microscopically examined and de- 

 lineated by Mr. Bauer ; a series of whose drawings were an- 

 nexed. Part of a paperwas read, entitled, " Some Observa- 

 tions on the Migration of Birds," by the late Dr. Jenner, F.R.S., 

 communicated by his nephew, the Rev. E. Jenner; and the 

 remainder postponed to a fiiture meeting. Major-gen. sir G. 

 Mui-ray, and John Rennie, Esq., were admitted Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Nov. 27. — The reading of Dr. Jenner's paper was concluded. 

 Dr. Cresswell and Prof. Barlow were admitted Fellows of the 

 Society. 



LINN^AN SOCIETY. 



The first meethig of this Society, after the summer recess, 

 was held on the 4th of November, A. B. Lambert, esq. V.P., 

 in the chair. A great many valuable presents were on the 

 table, consisting of works (chiefly foreign) on Natural History, 

 and of 85 species of birds sent from the East Indies by Ma- 

 jor-general Hardwicke, F.L.S., among which were a great 

 many rare and several new species : with them were also the 

 head oi Antelope quadricornis (the Chikara of Bengal,) a de- 

 scription of which had been read to the Society on the 17th 

 of last June, and a curious species of Musk Rat. 



Two papers from W. Fothergill, esq., communicated by Dr. 

 Sims, were read t-^-A Description of the Swallow-tailed Fal- 

 con, Falco furcatus Linn., taken near Hawes in Wensley 

 Dale, Yorkshire, in 1805: and a Description of a Bird, sup- 

 posed to be the Ralliis pusillus of Latham, shot at the same 

 place in 1807. Read also Observations on the Genus Onchi- 

 dium of Buchanan, with a Description of a new Species ; by 

 the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, F.L.S. An improved generic 

 character is given of Onchidium, belonging to the class Mol- 

 lusca, order Cephala, div. Gasteropoda : " Corpus oblongum, 

 repens, subtus planum. Penula carnosa pedem totum tegens. 

 Os anticum, longitudinale. Anus posticus, infra. Tentacula 

 duo retractilia. Oculi terminales." — Six species are enume- 

 rated, including a new one thus characterized : " O. occiden- 

 tale dorso fusco, atomis brunneis elevatis sparsis, ventre pal- 

 lido, lateribus lividc-maculatis, brachiis apice divisis." Found 

 in moist places of the mountainous parts of St. Vincent's. 



Nov. 18. — The reading was commenced of a paper by John 

 3 C 2 Murray. 



