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In consequence of the approaching fast and festival, the Society 

 then adjourned over two Thursdays to meet again on April 14. 



April 14, 21, & 28. — These three meetings were occupied by 

 the reading of A Monograph on Egyptian Mummies^ with Obser* 

 vations on the Art of Embalming among the Ancient Egyptians ; 

 by A. B. Granville, M.D. F.R.S. 



WNNEAN SOCIETY. 



January 18, 1825. — A portion of the Rev. Messrs. Sheppard's 

 and Whitear's Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk and Suffolk 

 was read. 



February 1. — A paper was read. On the structure of the Tarsus 

 in the Tetramerous and Trimerous Coleoptera of the French 

 Entomologists i by W. S. MacLeay, Esq. M.A. F.L.S. 



February 15 ; and March 1 & 15. — The reading of Messrs, 

 Sheppard's and Whitear's Catalogue was continued. 



ZOOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



January 11, 1825. — Mr. Vigors exhibited to the Meeting some 

 species of the Australasian genus Platycercus, belonging to the 

 family of Psitiacidce, which he had lately characterized : and he 

 pointed out the distinguishing peculiarities of the genus, the num- 

 ber of known species contained in it, and its geographical limits. 

 He thence took the opportunity of adverting to the importance of 

 the characters by which modern ornithologists are guided in 

 separating the groups of birds ; dwelling on the present occasion 

 more particularly on the points of distinction afforded by the dif- 

 ferent structure of the wing. These characters he asserted to be of 

 essential consequence, not only as being subject to no variation, 

 but as being derived from that part of the structure of Birds 

 which separates them from the other Vertebrated Animals, and, 

 as such, being most conducive to the knowledge of their peculiar 

 economy. He illustrated the difference in these characters of the 

 wing in many of the leading groups of Ornithology ; and he pointed 

 out the adaptation of such characters to the habits of life, and the 



