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had recently been presented to the Society by Mr. J. P. Vanghau ; 

 and Mr. Owen confirmed, from the observations of iMM. Quoy and 

 Gaimard, and those of Mr. Cuming, the curious statement made 

 by Herbst, that this Crab climbs trees for the purpose of stealing 

 cocoa-nuts. 



Mr. Owen subsequently reported the morbid appearances ob- 

 served on the post mortem examination of the Mandrill, Cynoce- 

 phalus Maimon, which recently died at the Society's Gardens. 



Feb. 14. — The Monkey described in Phil. Mag. and Annals, N.S. 

 vol. X, p. 311, under the name of Semnopithecns? albogularis, 

 having died, it was placed upon the table, and Col. Sykes stated 

 that its more essential anatomical characters were those of the genus 

 Cercopithecus, of which he now preferred to consider it a species. 

 Mr. Owen then read some notes on the Anatomy of this animal, 

 which does not, he stated, present any remarkable deviations from 

 the ordinary structure of the Cercopitheci. A specimen was exhi- 

 bited of a Lemuridous animal, recently presented to the Society by 

 C. Telfair, Esq. Corr. Memb. Z. S. It was shown by Mr. Bennett 

 to possess characters dift'ering to so great an extent from those of 

 the previously known genera of the family to which it belongs, as 

 to require its separation from them as the type of a new group, tp 

 which he gave the name oi Propithecus, characterizing the species as 

 Prop. Diadema. 



Col. Sykes took occasion to add the Viverra Rasse, Horsf., to his 

 Catalogue of the Mammalia of Dukhun, the two specimens ex- 

 hibited to the Committee, which he had hitherto regarded as varie- 

 ties of the Viv. Indica, Geoff., having been pronounced by Dr. Hors- 

 field to be the Viv. Indica, and Viv.Rasse. The habitat of the former 

 is in the woods of the vvestern Ghauts; the latter is found in the 

 table-land eastward of the Ghauts. Dr. Horsfield furnished an ac- 

 count of the differences between the two animals, adding, that not 

 having been acquainted with the Viv. Indica at the time when he 

 wrote the account of the Viv. Rasse in his " Zoological. Researches 

 in Java," he now found it necessary to modify the specific character 

 of the latter. 



Mr. Owen subsequently read some notes on a malformation qf 

 the beak oi PsittacusEritltacus, L. 



At the request of the Chairman, Mr. William Daniell, R.A., ex- 

 hibited numerous drawings of Antelopes made by his brother from 

 living animals, in his different journeys in Africa. He also exhibited 

 drawings of the male and female Jire-baclced Pheasant {I'hasianus 

 Ignitus, Lath.), which had also been made by his brother, in the 

 native places of these birds. 



Feb. 28. — Specimens were exhibited of numerous MoUnsca and 

 Conchifera hitiierto undescribed, which form part of the collection 

 made by Mr. II. Cuming during a voyage undertaken in 1827, 18128, 

 1829, and 1830, for the purpose of obtaining subjects in natural 

 history on the western coast of South America, its adjacent islands, 

 and many of those which form the principal Archipelago of the 

 South Pacific Ocean. The specimens e.vhibited on the present oc- 



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