Zoological Society. 447 



A List of Stars observed with the Moon, in the present year, at 

 the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 



[The following information re.specting this list is given in the Monthly 

 Notices of the Society, Vol. II. p. 42. " N.B. The Astronomer Royal having 

 kindly offered to furnish the Society, from time to time, with the observa- 

 tions of moon-culminating stars made at Greenwich, the first series is here 

 given for the present year ; and they will be continued in the subsequent 

 Monthly Notices, as they are received ; by w hich means they will become 

 more speedily accessible to those persons who are desirous of making com- 

 parisons of this kind."] 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 August 9, 1831. Dr. Horsfield in the Chair. 

 A letter from George Swinton, Esq., of Calcutta, Corr. Memb. 

 Z. S., addressed to the Secretary, was read, announcing the trans- 

 mission to England, as a im'seiit to the Society, of an entire Dugong, 

 preserved in s|)irit and brine, which he hoped would arrive in a suffi- 

 ciently perfect state to admit ol its dissection. 



Specimens of two species of Btils, presented to the Society with 

 a numerous and valuable collection of birds formed at Madras by 

 Josiah Marshall Heath, Esq., F.L. & Z.S., were exhibited, and Dr. 

 Horsfield identified them as the Megaderma Lyra, Geoff., and a new 



species 



