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island, a superb tiger's-skin, measuring from one extremity to 

 the other, 12 feet: by Mr. Telfair, the embalmed head of a 

 Now Zealand Chief, whose name was Mallawollo; by Captain. 

 John Briggs, the side of a Woman, which had fallen to his 

 share at a (east, lo which these Canibals invited him. Mr. 

 Briggs having saved from death, a Child of 7 or 8 yeais old, 

 whom they were about to sacrifice, took him under bis protec- 

 tion, and brought him hither, — this child was produced at the 

 meeting;, and seemed in features 'to differ. in nothing from the 

 JMalagasses, or from the mulatto Creoles of the island. There 

 were transmitted, from Mr. Cameron in Madagascar, the skins 

 of two Snakes, a dozen of Specimens in Mineralogy, and three 

 cases of Insects, with remarks on their properties, &c 



Capt. Briggs and Mr. 11. Campbell, of Sidney, were pro- 

 posed as Corresponding Members, and both being present, 

 they presented notices and details regarding the manners of the 

 New Zealanders. 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



Aug. 24, 1 S:jl — Mr. Faraguet observed in regard to the minutes 

 of the last sining, that the notice of the young NewZealander 

 was not entirely correct, when it. was announced that this child 

 differed in nothing from the Malagasscs or mulatto Creoles It 

 is well known, he remarked, that these people do differ from 

 lliosc who inhabit Madagascar, but in this individual case, the 

 distinction is not in many respects sensible. 



Capt. Briggs, Mr. II. Campbell, and Mr.S. Lair, D.M.P. of 

 Paris, were admitted Corresponding Members. 



There were presented as donations, by Mr. L, Bo u ton, three 

 pamphlets belonging to the Memoirs of Decandolte, vi/. /V- 

 trait des Annates des Sciences Natvrelles svr les Itnticelles 

 arbres et le dcveloppcmtnt des ratines qvi en iorlent ; and two 

 others, Pour scrvir d V Hi&toire du Rcyne vegetal, which bad 

 been sent him by Professor Hooker: — by Mr, Moon, DM. 

 Cooper's great work on Anatomy, entitled Myotonua Refor- 

 mat a ; — by Mr .). J. Cooper, the work entitled Liverpool and 

 Manchester Railway, being a collection of interesting plates ;-- 

 by Messrs. Lienard (Father, and son) 25 Pishes of the Island, 

 preserved in spirits, being individuals of determined species; — 

 by C. Telfair, jun. the Caudal Fin of the Sqvalvt Gluteus : — 

 by Mr. Felix Bouron, the Skeleton of a Malagasse, and five 

 Skulls, belonging to the following subjects : viz 1. a young 



