62 Zoological Society. 



1831. h m 8 



Oct. 16 .\ Aquarii 21 15 40-76 



5 1 L 21 49 41-44 



19 (227 ) Piscium 23 46 54-06 



(270) Piscium 23 57 10-50 



10 Ceti 18 43-98 



D 1 L 30 5010 



21 (141) Piscium 132 2934 



Piscium 1 37 16.52 



^1 Ceti '2 4 50-84 



J 2 L 2 27 0-48 



2.S 9' Tauri 4 19 45-22 



fl^Tauri 4 19 50-90 



Aldebaran 4 27 3-40 



]) 2 L 4 29 38-98 



27 ]) '2 L 8 4;J 44-32 



/3 Leonis 11 41 16"16 



28 J) 2 L 9 38 12-70 



Regulus 10 13-32 



VII. A paper on the Orbits of Binary Stars, by SirJ.F.W. Her- 

 schel, was commenced. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 Committee of Science and Correspondetice . 



October 11, 1831. — At the request of the Chairman Mr. Martin 

 read notes of some particulars observed on the dissection of a Mo- 

 nitor, which died a short time since at the Society's Gardens. They 

 were illustrated by a drawing, in which was represented the distri- 

 bution of the principal blood-vessels*. 



October 25. — Mr. Owen read a portion of his notes on the 

 anatomy of a Crocodile [Croc, actitus, Cuv.), made during the dis- 

 section of a young individual which had lately died at the Gardens 

 of the Society. 



After alluding to the peculiar structure of the tongue and Jauces, 

 which he described as essentially agreeing with that of the same 

 parts in the Egyptian Crocodile, he proceeded to the description 

 of the viscera, and commenced by remarking on the singular dis- 

 position of the serous membranes of the body in the Crocodiles; a 

 disposition which he has observed in no other animal, and which is 

 such as to resemble the effects of a general inflammatory action. 

 It is, however, normal, and has been observed by him in three in- 

 dividuals of the Crocodihis Lucius and Croc, acutus. 



" The serous membrane analogous to peritoneum is reflected 

 from the abdominal parietes upon the under surface of the sto- 

 mach, to the right of which it partially surrounds the gall-bladder, 

 and is continued upon the inferior surface of the right lobe of 



* For the details of Mr. Martin's notes on the anatomy of the Monitor, 

 and for those of Mr. Owen's on that of the Nine-ban drd y\rmadUlo, read at 

 a subsequent meeting, we refer the reader to the Proceedings of the Com- 

 mittee, as distributed to the members of the Zoological Society. 



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