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Among the contributions of general interest are those by 

 Bartlett on the breeding of the hippopotamus in the Gardens 

 and the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros on board the s.s. Orchis 

 in the Victoria Docks. The dam had been consigned to Mr. 

 Rice, and the arrival of the calf was unexpected. The author 

 compared it to a young ass, on account " of its long legs and 

 general mode of moving its large, long head and meagre- 

 looking body." By lifting, he estimated the weight at 50 lb. ; 

 the height is given as 2 ft. at the shoulder, and the total 

 length at 3 ft. It was unfortunate that the calf lived but a 

 few days, for thus a good opportunity of watching the growth, 

 development of the teeth, and other interesting matters was 

 lost. Another contribution of his described the moult in 

 Humboldt's penguin; and in this paper occurs the oft- 

 quoted description of the scaly wing-feathers flaking off like 

 the skin of a serpent. Sir Victor Brooke's communications 

 dealt with antelopes and deer; and those of D'Albertis 

 described his travels in New Guinea and some of the results. 

 Dobson's papers were chiefly on bats, those of Mr. H. E. Dresser 

 on European birds, and of Flower on cetaceans. The pro- 

 sectorial memoirs of Forbes and Garrod were for the most 

 part anatomical and systematic. Godman alone, and in con- 

 junction with Osbert Salvin, contributed some important papers 

 on the Butterflies of Central America. The latter collaborated 

 with Dr. Sclater on the Birds of Central and South America. 



About a dozen papers by Mr. W. H. Hudson treat of the 

 smaller mammals and the birds of the Argentine Republic, 

 and some of this material has since been made available for 

 the general public in his charming books on La Plata and 

 Patagonia. Huxley contributed six papers ; that on the Classi- 

 flcation and Distribution of the Crayfishes was expanded into 

 the well-known text-book in the International Science Series. 

 Lord Lilford did something to settle the question as to the 

 position in which the flamingo sits on her eggs. Professor 

 Newton's papers were principally ornithological; and those of 

 Owen and Kitchen Parker abstracts of their memoirs in the 

 Transactions. Mr. Howard Saunders was chiefly concerned 

 with skuas, gulls, and terns; and an important statistical 

 paper by Max Schmidt on the Duration of Life of the Animals 



