298 Zoological Procc&ilings of Societies. 



and others, but that it is in rt-ality a distinct species. The 

 Pongo at the College of Surgeons has five caudal vertebra;, while 

 all the skeletons of Simla Safjjriis have but four : there arc also 

 material differences in the cranium and scapula;. 



The Society then adjourned over the long vacation, to meet 

 again on Tuesday, Nov. 6. 



ZOOLOGICAt, CLUB OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



March 1 4 <S|- 28, 1826. — A paper was read, entitled Observations 

 on the ends proposed in Natural History by the use of artificial 

 and natural tuethods ; by J. E. Bicheno, Esij. Sec. L.S. 



^Jpril 11.— The Secretary read A description of some nezo species 

 o/Vhasianida;, by Major Gen. T. Ilardwicke, F.R. & L.S. 



April 25. — A discussion took place on the principles of arrange- 

 ment in Natural History. 



May 9. — Mr. Vigors gave a description of the species of the 

 New-IIolland genus Meliphaga,%. and pointed out the sectional 

 subdivisions of the genus, as they more or less accorded with the 

 typical characters. 



May 28. — A paper by Mr. Yarrell, on the trachea; of birds, was 

 read, of which an account will be found in our report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Linnean Society. 



June 13. — I\Ir. Vigors resumcd^he discussion which had taken 

 place' among the Members of the Club, on the 14th and 28th of 

 ]\Iarch, and the 1 1th and 25th of April; n)iiking a particular refer- 

 ence to the views of arrangement which had been promulgated in 

 this country by the publication of the " Ilora* Entomologica;." lie 

 endeavoured to prove that the views exhibited in that work were 

 improvements, not innovations, upon those Mhich had previously 

 existed, and were commensurate with, and rendered necessary by, 

 the increasing information of the age. He adverted to the con- 

 fusion which had arisen in Zoology by the Indiscriminate use of 

 the terms natural aaCi artificial Systems ; contending that, philo- 

 sophically speaking, there is but one natural system^ — the System 

 of the Universe as originally planned by the Creator, — and that 

 all systems of arrangemer\t introduced by man arc purely artificial, 

 aud are merely symbolick representations by which the naturalist 



