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the remaining communications, abstracts or extracts were 

 considered to be sufficient for publication. 



2. Scientific Publications. 



The volume of the Society's 'Proceedings' for lS77j 

 which is now on the table, contains 893 pages, iUustrated 

 by 85 (mostly coloured) plates. 



Five Parts of the Society's ' Transactions ' were issued 

 during the year 1877j namely: — 



Vol. IX. Part X. (February, 1877)- 



Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the Family 

 SphingidcE. By Arthur G. Butler (with five plates). 



Vol. IX. Part XI. (Maich, 1877). 



On tlic Rhinoceroses now or lately living in the Society's 

 Menagerie. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., F.R.S., Secretary to 

 the Society (with five plates), concluding the volume. 



Vol. X. Part I. (May, 1877). 



On the Axial Skeleton of the Struthionida;. By St. 

 George Mivart, F.R.S. &c. 



Vol. X. Part II. (August, 1877). 



On the Ancient or Quaternary Fauna of Gibraltar, as 

 excmpliticd in the Mammalian Remains of the Ossiferous 

 Breccia. By George Busk, F.R.S. (with twenty-seven 

 plates) . 



Vol. X. Part III. (October, 1S77). 



Notes on the Manatee [Manatus americanus) recently 

 living in the Society's Gardens. By A. II. Garrod, M.A., 

 F.Z.S., Prosector to the Society (with three plates). 



On Dlnorms (Part XXI.) : containing a Restoration of 

 the Skeleton of Dinornis maximus, Owen. With an Appen- 

 dix, on Additional Evidence of the Genus Dromornis in 

 ustralia. By Professor Owen, C.B., F.R.S. (with three 

 plates). 



Since the commencement of the present year two more 

 parts of 'Transactions' have been issued, and four others, 

 containing all the remaining papers read uj) to the close of 



