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latter, from his assertion that no dipterous insect has a sting 

 behind. 



April 6.— A letter was read, from the Rev. W. Win tear, of 

 HarlestOn, in Norfolk, stating that a Little Bustard had been 

 shot, in December last, at Little Clarton, in Essex. He con- 

 siders it to be a curious fact that this bird, an inhabitant of a 

 southern climate, should have been met with in this country, in 

 winter. 



A description was likewise commenced, of a Collection of Arctic 

 Plants formed by Captain Sabine, during- a voyage to the Polar 

 Seas, in 1823 : by W. J. Hooker, LLD. FRS. &c. Communi- 

 cated by the Council of the Horticultural Society. 



April 20. — Sir T. Gery Cullum, Bart. FLS. presented some 

 sections of Fir timber, pierced to a great depth by the Sirex ju- 

 vencus of Linnaeus ; together with specimens of the insect itself. 

 They were from the woods of Henham Hall, in Suffolk, the seat 

 of the Earl of Stradbroke, where two hundred Scotch Firs 

 have been destroyed by this insect ; being bored through and 

 through. The reading of Dr. Hooker's description of the 

 Arctic Plants collected by Capt. Sabine was continued. 



A Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, with remarks ; 

 by the Rev. Revett Shephard, AM. FLS., and the Rev. W. 

 Whitear, AM. FLS., was read in part, and the remainder post- 

 poned to a future meeting. 



ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. 



We have hitherto been prevented from noticing this useful 

 association. Its first meeting was held in the apartments of the 

 Linnean Society on the 29th of November last, the birth-day of 

 our celebrated countryman John Ray. The Club is composed 

 of members of the Society devoted to the study of zoology and 

 comparative anatomy, and has been organized with the view of 

 advancing the knowledge of those sciences, in all their branches, 

 under the sanction of the Society. This body will not have any 

 publications of its own, but will submit all original communica- 

 tions made to it to the Council of the Linnean Society, who will 

 decide upon them as upon all other communications. 



Before the Zoological Club proceeded to the election of their 

 officers and the other business of the day, an admirable opening 

 address, explanatory of the views of the association, was deli- 

 vered by the Rev. W. Kirby, FR. and LS. who had been unani- 

 mously called to the chair. 



The following members were then appointed to form the Com- 

 mittee and Officers for the management of the affairs of the Club 

 for the ensuing year : — 



Joseph Sabine, Esq. Chairman ; J. F. Stephens, Esq. Treasu- 

 rer ; N. A. Vigors, Esq. Secretary: ReV. W. Kirby; A. H. 

 Haworth, Esq. ; Thomas Horsfield, MD. ; Thomas Bell, Esq. ; 

 E. T. Bennet, Esq. ; G. Milne, Esq. 



