180 Annals of the Philosophical Club 



Dinosauria. The rectification is important, for it shows the 

 true pelvis of Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, etc., to be more 

 bird-like in character than could have been imagined, and 

 this, with the tridactylate character of the foot in the above- 

 named Dinosaurs, caused him to regard them as the nearest 

 connecting forms, known to us, between the typical reptilia 

 and the struthious or other ratite birds. 



Mr. Sclater announced the probable arrival of a living 

 walrus at the Zoological Gardens. 



Dr. Carpenter recounted some interesting experiments 

 on a living Comatula, undertaken to show that, as he had 

 already thought probable, the sarcode cord which passes 

 through each segment of the arms and pinnules has the 

 function of a nerve-trunk, though it has not the histological 

 character of nerve. 



Nov. 28th, iSyth meeting. Mr. Grove read a letter from 

 a member of his family, giving an account of a recent 

 ascent of Vesuvius and the present state of the eruption. 

 The explosions occurred with a certain periodicity, the 

 greater ones at intervals of 4 or 5 minutes, with numerous 

 minor explosions between them at intervals of a few seconds. 



Mr. Sclater mentioned that, for the first time in England, 

 an eland had that morning been sold to a butcher for food. 



1868. Jan. 3oth, iSgth meeting. Dr. Carpenter reverted 

 to the subject of his communication about the physiological 

 structure of crinoids, adding several particulars of much 

 interest. 



Professor Flower exhibited a photograph of a drawing 

 from New Zealand, sent by Dr. Haast, which gave (with 

 some restorations) the shapes and sizes of six species of 

 Dinornis. 



April 27th, iQ2nd meeting. Mr. Grove, who had examined 

 some rocking stones during a recent visit to Cornwall, 

 exhibited a small model in imitation of the phenomena. 



Professor Tyndall gave an account of his recent visit to 

 Vesuvius during the eruption, when he had succeeded in 

 ascending to the margin of the crater and looking down into it. 



May 28th, I93rd meeting. Dr. Carpenter exhibited a 



