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6. Zoological Lectures. 



The Zoological Lectures, to which tlic proceeds of the 

 Davis Trust-fund have been devoted for several years, 

 will be continued during the present season. 



The Lectures for this j'ear will be given in the usual 

 Lecture-room in the Society's Gardens, on Thursdays at 

 5 P.M., commencing June 8th. 



The following is a list of the subjects : — 



Date 



Subject. 



Lecturer. 



1. Thursday, June 8 



7. 



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Armadillos, living and ex- 

 tinct. 



The British Lion 



Crocodiles 



British Snakes and Lizards. 



Frogs and Toads 



Lisects and their Metamor- 

 phoses. 



Foreign Zoological Gardens 



Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.E.S. 



Prof. Boyd Dawkins, F.E.S. 

 Prof. Parker, F.E.S. 

 Prof. Mivart, F.E.S. 

 W. A. Forbes, Esq., B.A. 

 Prof. Martin Duncan, F.E.S. 



P. L. Sclater, E.sq., M.A., 

 F.E.S. 



These Lectures will be free to Fellows of the Society 

 and their Friends, and to other Visitors to the Gardens. 



7. Prosector's Department. 



The accommodation afforded by the original dissecting- 

 rooms, built in 1865, having been found to be too limited, 

 and the rooms themselves being so damp as to render 

 them very ixnhealthy, it was decided in 1880 to thoroughly 

 repair and alter the whole house, to raise the floor and 

 put in hot-water pipes to dry and warm it, and, as already 

 mentioned, to increase the available space by enlarging 

 the Prosector^'s private room, and by building on to it three 

 smaller and separate studies, for the accommodation of 

 students, artists, and others who have occasion to work in 

 the dissecting-room. 



These repairs and improvements have now been satis- 

 factorily completed, the new studies having been finished 

 in the summer of last year, and the remaining rooms 

 shortly before Christmas. They have, in every respect, 

 been found to answer their purpose admirably, the new 

 rooms being both dry, wann, and light. 



During the mouths of July and August last year the 



