Royal Society. — Linncean Sciety. 295 



oiFelis discovered by- Sir T. S. Raffles ; by Dr. Horsfield.- Descriptions of 

 some new Brazilian species of the family of Laniadce, by Mr. Such.— De- 

 scription of the Vespertilio PygmcBm, a new species recently discovered in 

 Devonshire by Dr. Leach.— Notices of Zoological Books, &c.— Dr Horse- 

 field s paper on the Rimau-Duhan, or, as M. Temminck has denominated it 

 Fdis Macrocelii, is one of the most interesting articles in the number • he 

 gives the following specific character of the animal. " Felis grisea, macnlis 

 nigris: hiimcralibiis maximis transversis; lateralibus obliquis subcoadunatis 

 vel intervalhs angnstioribus divisis plagis angulatis rotundatisve rarius ocel- 

 latis; omnibus marginibus posterioribus saturatioribus, lineis cei-vice dor- 

 soque summo duabus parallelis : collo utrinque duabus superiore continua 

 inferiore interrupta, pedibus validis, podiis aniplis robustis, cauda lonffissima 

 incrassata lanuginosa." 



LI. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



April 14.. — 'T'HE reading was commenced of « A Mono- 

 -■- graph on Egyptian Mummies, with observa- 

 tions on the Art of Embahning among the Ancient Eo-vptians •" 

 by A. B. Granville, M.D. F.R.S. ^Jf ' 



April 21. — The reading of Dr. Granville's paper was con- 

 tinued. 



April 28. — The reading of Dr. Granville's paper was con- 

 cluded. . 



THE LINN.EAN SOCIETY. 



March l.-;.— Read a paper from R. A. Salisbury, Esq. 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., on the Trichomanes elegans of Mr. Rudge's 

 Plant(E Guiana;. It appears that M. Bory de St. Vincent as- 

 serts in the 6th vol. of the Dictionnaire classique d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, under the article Fovgerc, that Mr. Rudge's plant, 

 t. 35, is composed of two species of different geneia, one of 

 which M. Bory pro})oses as a Feen, and the otlier as consti- 

 tuting a new genus, under the name of Hymcnostachys. Mr. 

 Salisbury how ever insists, that M. Bory's assertions are devoid 

 of any foundation, and he attributes his criticisms to an igno- 

 rance of the Eatin language. In confirmation of this opinion, 

 Mr. S. exhibited the specimen itself from which the figure had 

 been drawn, that he might afford occular demonstration, that it 

 consisted of one indivi(lual. 



To corroborate this opinion, he adduces the testimony of 

 Professor Hooker, who in his 52nd plate of his Exotic Flora, 

 refers to Mr. Rudge's figure and gives a coloured one of 7^. ele- 

 gans the involucrum oi" which contained ripe capsules. 



The question being a matter of reference to the Society, 

 the Vice President iiauied Mr. Edward Forster, Mr. Bicheno, 

 and Mr. Mcnzies to investigate the matter and report there- 

 on in pursuance of a bye-law of tlie Society. 



April 



