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Zoological Society. 



We regret that our space does not permit us to make any extracts 

 from the book, but we can assure our readers that they will find in 

 it a vast mass of useful information, compressed into a very small 

 space and in a convenient form for reference. The most recent works, 

 including voyages and travels, appear to have been consulted with 

 advantage, and the extracts from them to have been well and care- 

 fully selected. 



We hope that in some future edition Mr. Maunder will shorten 

 such articles as that on Man, as the space might be much more ad- 

 vantageously occupied by other subjects. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



January 25, 1848. — Dr. Gamble in the Chair. 

 The following paper was read : — 



Note on the Capture of the Aurochs (^Bos Urus, Bodd). By 

 M. Dimitri de Dolmatoff, Master of the Imperial Forests 

 IN the Government of Grodno. 



(Communicated by Sir Roderick Murchison.) 



Having been appointed, in 1842, Master of the Forests of the 

 Government of Grodno, I have been led, as much by duty as by in- 

 clination, to pay particular attention to the forest of Bialowieza, the 

 last asylum of the Bison of Europe, and I have given a description of 

 that primitive forest and of its interesting inhabitant, both worthy to 

 be numbered amonsrst those curiosities which our beautiful and im- 



mense country presents. My work was favourably received by our 

 government, but subsequently five years of assiduous observations and 

 researches have convinced me that that work is incomplete, and have 



