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4. Zoological Lectures. 



The Council have the pleasure of announcing that Pro- 

 fessor Huxley has accepted the post of Davis-Lecturer for 

 the present year. 



Professor Huxley will give a course of six lectures on 

 Fridays, at 5 p.m., commencing on Friday, May 17- 



The subject will be Crustaceous Animals and their 



Organization. 



5. Picture Gallery 



The Society's series of water-colour drawings taken by 

 Mr. Joseph Wolf from animals living in the Menagerie, 

 which was sent by the Council to South Kensington to be 

 exhibited in the Exhibition of Scientific Instruments in 

 1876, has been rearranged in the Picture Gallery, and 

 will shortly be open for inspection by the Fellows and 

 Visitors to the Gardens. 



It is certain that no such series of life-like portraits of 

 animals of equal excellence has ever been formed. 



Several additions have been made to the Collection, 

 amongst which may be mentioned as of special interest 

 five drawings of the five different species of Rhinoceroses 

 in the Gardens (being the originals from which the illus- 

 trations to the Secretary's memoir on living Rhinoceroses, 

 published in the Society's Transactions, were taken), and 

 a large chalk drawing of the Gorilla. 



6. Prosector's Department. 



Prof. Garrod, F.R.S., has made the following communi- 

 cations to the scientific meetings during the year, based 

 mainly upon the examination of specimens that have died 

 in the Gardens: — Notes on the Visceral Anatomy and 

 Osteology of the Ruminants, with a Suggestion regarding 

 a Method of expi-essing the Relations of Species by means 

 of Formulae; Note on the Solid-hoofed Pigs in the Society's 

 Collection ; On the Mechanism of the Intervertebral Sub- 

 stance, and on some Effects of the Erect Position of Man ; 

 Notes on the Anatomy of the Musk-Deer {Moschus mos- 

 chi/crus) ; Notes on the Anatomy and Systematic Position 



