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Anthus Richardi of M. Vieillot, was taken alive in a net in the 

 fields, north of London, in the month of October, 1812. The se- 

 cond, an undescribed species of Scolupax, was shot in Queen's 

 County, in Ireland, on the 21st August, 1822. Mr. Vigors pro- 

 posed to name the latter species Scolopax Sabini, in honour of the 

 Chairman of the Club, and he signified his intention of giving a 

 detailed account and description of these Birds at an early oppor- 

 tunity. 



Mr. Vigors' paper " On the Natural Affinities that connect the 

 Orders and Families of Birds," was concluded. 



April 27. — A paper was read, entitled " Descriptions of several 

 species hitherto unpublished, of the Genus Cocciuella," by Geo. 

 Milne, Esq. F.L.S. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Feb. 20. — A notice was read, of the Discovery of a perfect 

 Skeleton of the Fossil Genus hitherto called Plesiosaurus ; by the 

 Rev. W. D. Conybeare, F.R.S. M.G.S. 



The Plesiosaurus, which is the subject of this notice, was found 

 in the blue lias of Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire. In the whole 

 exterior portion of its vertebral column the skeleton is entire, and 

 of the remaining parts of the animal few are wanting. In the 

 Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. v. and vol. i. second 

 series, the author had attempted to assign to the various dis- 

 persed and disjointed remains of this animal which were then 

 known, their relative places in the skeleton, and his opinions, he 

 observes, have now, in all essential points, received full con- 

 firmation. After pointing out the errors into which he had 

 fallen, Mr. Conybeare describes the osteology of this remarkable 

 fossil animal ; the most characteristic and distinguishing features 

 of which are, the extraordinary length of the neck, which fully 

 equals that' of the body and tail united, and the number of its 

 vertebrae, which very far exceeds that of any animal previously 

 known. 



A notice was also read on the Megalosaurus, or great Fossil 

 Lizard of Stonesfield, near Oxford ; by the Rev. W. Buckland, 



