148 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. j 
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 :— 
Nore on THE CaprurEe or THE Avrocus (Bos Urus, Bodd). By 
M. Druirri pe Dotmatorr, Master or 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 amongst 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 
