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near New Lanark, in Upper Canada, containing bones of 

 various quadrupeds, the larger of which are supposed to have 

 been carried in by a smaller animal, and of the effects of whose 

 teeth there are evident marks. 



Mat/ 19. — A paper was read, entitled, Notes on the Geolo- 

 gical Position of some of the Rocks of the N. E. of Ireland ; by 

 Lieut. Portlock, Roy. Eng. FGS. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



We are happy to be able to announce the complete organiza- 

 tion of this Society, the establishment of which has been for some 

 time in contemplation. A meeting of the friends of the Society 

 took place at the Rooms of the Horticultural Society on the 

 29th April, at which upwards of 100 noblemen and gentlemen 

 were present. Among them we noticed — 



The Marquess of Lansdowne, Lords Darnley,Egremont, Gage, 

 Auckland, Stanley, Clinton, the President of the Board of Con- 

 troul, the President of the Royal Society, the Right Hon. the 

 Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, Sir Robert Inghs, Sir 

 Everard Home, Sir R. C. Fergusson, Sir Stamford Raffles, the 

 Hon. Mr. Twisselton Fiennes, General Thornton, Dr. Goode- 

 nough, Mr. W. Hamilton, Mr. H. T. Colebrooke, Mr. Children, 

 of the British Museum, Mr. Duncan, of the Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford, Mr. P. Duncan, ditto, Mr. Lambert, Mr. Marsden, Mr. 

 Sotheby, the Rev. Mr. Benson, Mr. Vigors, Dr. Harvvood, Dr. 

 Horsfield, Mr. Barnard, Mr. Clift, Mr. Murchison, Capt. De 

 Capel Brooke, Dr. Waring, Mr. Stephens, the Rev. Mr. Rackett, 

 Mr. Haworth, Mr. Griffiths, the Rev. Mr. Hope, &c. 



Sir Stamford Raffles having been called to the Chair, a series 

 of resolutions were proposed, and passed unanimously, for the 

 organization of the Society ; and the following President, Coun- 

 cil, and Officers, appointed : — 



President. — Sir Stamford Raffles, President, LL.D. FRS. &c. 



His Grace the Duke of Somerset, LL.D. FRS. &c. ; Most 

 Noble the Marquess of Lansdowne, FRS. &c. ; Right Hon. the 

 Earl of Darnley, FRS. &c. ; Right Hon. the Earl of Egremont, 

 FRS. Sec. ; Right Hon. Viscount Gage, MA. 8cc. ; Right Hon. 

 Lord Auckland ; Right Hon. Lord Stanley, MP. VPLS. &c. ; 

 Sir Everard Home, Bart. VPRS.&c; C. Barnard, Esq. FLS.&c; 

 J. E. Bicheno, Esq. Sec. LS. &c. ; J. G. Children, Esq. FRS.; 

 &c. ; H.T. Colebrooke, Esq. FRS. &c.; Rev. Dr. Goodenough, 

 FRS. &c. ; G. B. Greenough, Esq. FRS. &c. ; Major-General 

 Hardwicke, FRS. &c. ; Thomas Horsfield, MD. FLS. &c.; 

 Joseph Sabine, Esq. FRS. Treas.; Charles Stokes, Esq.FRS.&c; 

 N. A. Vigors, Esq. MA. FRS. 8cc. Sec; C. Baring Wall, Esq. 

 MP. &c. 



The President then read an opening address to the meeting, 

 explanatory of the past and present state of Zoology in this 



